Calvin C Moore

Mathematics at Berkeley

A History

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Produktbeschreibung

In this fascinating history of the mathematics department at the University of California, Berkeley, Moore describes how this institution evolved from a single facutly member at a financially-troubled private college into a major research center that is ranked among the very best in the USA and in the world. Moore's account spans from its origins in the 1850s to the establishment and early years of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in the early to mid 1980s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9781568813028
• ISBN-10: 1568813023
• Artikelnr.: 24310702

Autorenporträt

Calvin C. Moore

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Introduction 1 Creating a University 2 Professor Welcker and the Department of Mathematics 3 Professor Stringham and the Department of Mathematics 4 Lagging Behind: 1909
1933 5 The Beginning of the Evans Years: 1932
1936 6 The Evans Years: 1936
1945 7 The Postwar Years: 1946
1949 8 Postwar Initiatives in Applied Mathematics 9 The Oath Controversy 10 Mathematics: 1950
1955 11 Growth and Separation of Statistics: 1950
1955 12 Change in the Wind: 1955
1957 13 The Kelley Years: 1957
1960 14 Computing and Computer Science 1955
1973 15 Campus Planning and Evans Hall 16 Growth and Stabilization: 1961
1973 17 Departmental Life in the "Sixties": 1964
1973 18 Recovery: 1974
1985 19 MSRI: The Initial Years, 1978
1985 20 End Note: Highlights after 1985; Appendices; References; Photograph Credits; Index