Mathematical People
eBook - PDF

Mathematical People

Profiles and Interviews

  1. 416 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Mathematical People

Profiles and Interviews

About this book

This unique collection contains extensive and in-depth interviews with mathematicians who have shaped the field of mathematics in the twentieth century. Collected by two mathematicians respected in the community for their skill in communicating mathematical topics to a broader audience, the book is also rich with photographs and includes an introdu

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface to Second Edition
  4. Preface to First Edition
  5. Foreword
  6. Introduction: Refl ections on Writing the History of Mathematics
  7. Garrett Birkhoff
  8. David Blackwell
  9. Shiing-Shen Chern
  10. John Horton Conway
  11. H. S. M. Coxeter
  12. Persi Diaconis
  13. Paul Erdős
  14. Martin Gardner: Defending the Honor of the Human Mind
  15. Martin Gardner: Master of Recreational Mathematics and Much More
  16. Ronald L. Graham
  17. Paul Halmos
  18. Peter J. Hilton
  19. John Kemeny
  20. Morris Kline
  21. Donald Knuth
  22. Solomon Lefschetz: A Reminiscence
  23. Benoit Mandelbrot
  24. Henry Pollak
  25. George Pólya
  26. Mina Rees
  27. Constance Reid
  28. Herbert Robbins
  29. Raymond Smullyan
  30. Olga Taussky-Todd
  31. Albert Tucker
  32. Stanislaw M. Ulam
  33. Biographical Data
  34. Back Cover