Offers a comprehensive history of the development of mathematics in the US and Canada. This first volume of a two-volume work takes the reader from the European encounters with North America in the fifteenth century up to the emergence of the United States as a world leader in mathematics in the 1930s.
Offers a comprehensive history of the development of mathematics in the US and Canada. This first volume of a two-volume work takes the reader from the European encounters with North America in the fifteenth century up to the emergence of the United States as a world leader in mathematics in the 1930s.
David E. Zitarelli, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Part I: Colonial Era and Period of Confederation, 1492-1800: Beginnings 2. Independence 3. Transition 1776: The patriot 4. Part II: New republic, 1800-1876: The age of Bowditch 5. The age of Peirce 6. Transition 1876: Story vs. Klein 7. Part III: Research community, 1876-1900: Sylvester, Klein, AMS 8. Chicago 9. The 1890s 10. Transition 1900: Hilbert's American colony 11. Part IV: Consolidation and growth, 1900-1930: Establishment, 1900-1914 12. Wartime, 1914-1920 13. The Roaring Twenties 14. More Roaring Twenties 15. Transition 1930: Albert vs. Hasse 16. Endnotes 17. Bibliography 18. Index.
1. Part I: Colonial Era and Period of Confederation, 1492-1800: Beginnings 2. Independence 3. Transition 1776: The patriot 4. Part II: New republic, 1800-1876: The age of Bowditch 5. The age of Peirce 6. Transition 1876: Story vs. Klein 7. Part III: Research community, 1876-1900: Sylvester, Klein, AMS 8. Chicago 9. The 1890s 10. Transition 1900: Hilbert's American colony 11. Part IV: Consolidation and growth, 1900-1930: Establishment, 1900-1914 12. Wartime, 1914-1920 13. The Roaring Twenties 14. More Roaring Twenties 15. Transition 1930: Albert vs. Hasse 16. Endnotes 17. Bibliography 18. Index.
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