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Author(s): Donald Albers (Author); Gerald L. Alexanderson (Author)
ISBN(s): 9781568816623, 1439865175
Edition: 2
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Year: 2011
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1439865175 
ISBN 13: 9781568816623
Author: Donald Albers, Gerald L Alexanderson

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

Mathematical People Profiles and Interviews 2nd Table of contents:

  1. Garrett Birkhoff
  2. Lattice Theory
  3. Collaboration with Mac Lane
  4. Undergraduate Education
  5. Childhood and Early Education
  6. George D. Birkhoff’s Education
  7. Interest in Applied Algebra
  8. Interest in Mechanics
  9. George D. Birkhoff’s Work on the Four Color Problem
  10. Colleagues in Mexico
  11. Aesthetic Measure
  12. David Blackwell
  13. “Geometry Is a Beautiful Subject!”
  14. Planned to Be an Elementary School Teacher
  15. Graduate School and the Institute for Advanced Study
  16. Statistical Beginnings
  17. “I’m Sort of a Dilettante”
  18. Duels
  19. Blackwell on Teaching
  20. “Formulas and Symbols—I Don’t Especially Like Them”
  21. “I Think Proofs by Contradiction Are a Mistake”
  22. “I Applied Only to Black Institutions”
  23. Berkeley
  24. Blackwell on Leadership
  25. Blacks in Mathematics
  26. Families and Telephones
  27. Postscript
  28. Shiing-Shen Chern
  29. Postscript
  30. John Horton Conway
  31. The Doomsday Algorithm
  32. References
  33. Postscript
  34. H. S. M. Coxeter
  35. All Those Initials
  36. Early Interest in Mathematics
  37. Adventures at Trinity College, Cambridge
  38. What Is Geometry?
  39. The Top Geometers
  40. Elegant Examples
  41. The Four Color Problem
  42. Significant Unsolved Problems
  43. Who Teaches Geometry Best?
  44. Nice Geometry for Colleges
  45. Is Geometry Dead?
  46. References
  47. Postscript
  48. Persi Diaconis
  49. A Magical Beginning
  50. On the Road
  51. Martin Gardner and Graduate School
  52. “Statistics Is the Physics of Numbers”
  53. The Computer and New-Wave Statistics
  54. “I’ve Got to Have Applications”
  55. The Art of Finding Real Problems
  56. What Is Teaching?
  57. Psychics and ESP
  58. Debunking
  59. The MacArthur Prize
  60. Teaching Is Terrific”
  61. A Professorship in Magic
  62. Postscript
  63. Paul Erdős
  64. The Peripatetic Mathematician
  65. A Mathematical Prodigy
  66. Changes in the Teaching of Mathematics
  67. Erdős’s Mathematical Contributions and “The Book ”
  68. Erdős Numbers and Erdős Lore
  69. Nobel Prizes: Appropriate for Mathematics?
  70. Von Neumann and Gödel
  71. Child Prodigies
  72. Erdős’s First Two and a Half Billion Years in Mathematics
  73. Postscript
  74. Martin Gardner: Defending the Honor of the Human Mind
  75. Surprises
  76. Who Is Gardner?
  77. Mathematical Games
  78. The Greater Gardner
  79. Into the Future
  80. Martin Gardner: Master of Recreational Mathematics and Much More
  81. Magic
  82. Tulsa Roots
  83. Navy Service
  84. The Horse on the Escalator
  85. Origin of Writing Interests
  86. Humpty Dumpty
  87. Mathematical Games
  88. The Game of Life
  89. “I Just Write as Clearly as I Can”
  90. Philosophical Theism
  91. Dinner with Gödel
  92. “I’m Strictly a Journalist”
  93. Postscript
  94. Ronald L. Graham
  95. Calculus at Age 11
  96. Adding Points
  97. Complete Disorder Is Impossible
  98. Acrotheater
  99. The Berkeley System
  100. Erdős
  101. True Mark of Teaching
  102. Research and Arrows
  103. Music, Understanding, and Magic
  104. Postscript
  105. Paul Halmos
  106. Part I: Maverick Mathologist
  107. A Downward-Bound Philosopher
  108. A College Freshman at Age Fifteen
  109. “Suddenly I Understood Epsilons!”
  110. Inspirations
  111. Mathophysics
  112. What Is Mathematics?
  113. Federal Support of Mathematics?
  114. Why Write about Mathematics?
  115. Is Applied Mathematics Bad?
  116. Part II: In Touch with God
  117. The Best Part
  118. The Worst Part
  119. Halmos and the Law
  120. Practice, Practice
  121. Doing Mathematics
  122. The Root of All Deep Mathematics
  123. Seventy-Five and Worrying
  124. Father
  125. Smelling Mathematicians
  126. Postscript
  127. Peter J. Hilton
  128. Struck by a Rolls Royce
  129. Theatrical Aspirations
  130. Adopted Children in Africa
  131. The Advantages of Collaboration
  132. The Beginning of the Computer
  133. Mathematical Heroes
  134. The Decision to Leave England
  135. Postscript
  136. John Kemeny
  137. The Origin of BASIC
  138. Computing and Active Students
  139. The Future of Books
  140. The Hungarian Connection
  141. Logarithms at Age Nine
  142. “Einstein Did Need Help in Mathematics”
  143. Mathematical Literacy
  144. Postscript
  145. Morris Kline
  146. Early Opposition to “New Math”
  147. “Back-to-Basics” versus “New Math”
  148. History—A Guide to Pedagogy
  149. Does Research Affect Teaching?
  150. A Doctor of Arts Degree for Teachers?
  151. How to Motivate: Pure versus Applied Mathematics
  152. Expository Writing for Teachers
  153. Life at New York University
  154. Advice to Teachers
  155. Postscript
  156. Donald Knuth
  157. “I Got Headaches from Drawing Those Graphs”
  158. “I Always Had an Inferiority Complex”
  159. “I Discovered Computers in My Freshman Year—Before Girls”
  160. “Students Aren’t Learning How to Write”
  161. Computer Science versus Mathematics
  162. Basketball and Computers
  163. Origin of The Art of Computer Programming
  164. The Discipline of Writing
  165. The Roots of METAFONT
  166. Surreal Numbers
  167. Artificial Intelligence
  168. Solomon Lefschetz: A Reminiscence
  169. References
  170. Benoit Mandelbrot
  171. A Fractal Orbit
  172. The Influence of Lévy
  173. John von Neumann
  174. The IBM Fellowship
  175. How Long Is the Coast of Britain?
  176. The Rebirth of Geometry
  177. Computer Graphics
  178. Old Fractals and New Names
  179. The Antigeometry of Bourbaki
  180. The Fractal Manifesto
  181. New Fields to Conquer
  182. References
  183. Postscript
  184. Henry Pollak
  185. The Roots of Pollak
  186. Mathematical Heroes
  187. Cross-Country Mathematics
  188. Pollak as Teacher
  189. Teaching in Industry
  190. Missed Opportunities in Continuing Education
  191. Model Building in the Schools
  192. SMSG and the New Math: Reflections by One of the Pioneers
  193. The Second Round of SMSG
  194. Failure of SMSG at the Elementary Level
  195. Facts versus Opinions on Mathematical Education
  196. Do Mathematicians Suffer from Reality Anxiety?
  197. International Activities
  198. Bell Labs: Managing Mathematicians
  199. Advice to Academicians on Keeping People Happy
  200. Airplane Problems
  201. Is Applied Math Bad?
  202. Mathematics: Invented or Discovered?
  203. Postscript
  204. George Pólya
  205. Mathematics Is Between Philosophy and Physics
  206. The Pólya-Weyl Wager
  207. Mathematical Influences
  208. The Art of Problem Solving
  209. How to Solve It
  210. Postscript
  211. Mina Rees
  212. A Woman in Mathematics
  213. Mathematicians and Public Policy
  214. Awards and Honors
  215. Mathematicians During World War II
  216. Teaching versus Research
  217. Mathematics and Aesthetics
  218. Postscript
  219. Constance Reid
  220. The Question That Everyone Asks
  221. The Switch to Biographies
  222. The Story of Hilbert and Paradise Lost
  223. The Story of Courant, or Paradise Regained
  224. The Research on Hilbert
  225. Hilbert and Courant as Teachers
  226. Women in Mathematics
  227. Jerzy Neyman
  228. Postscript
  229. Herbert Robbins
  230. Confrontation with Courant
  231. Important Influences
  232. Becoming a Statistician
  233. The Creative Process
  234. Competitiveness in Mathematics
  235. Mathematical Reflections and Projections
  236. Getting Known in Mathematics
  237. What Does It Feel Like to Be a Mathematician?
  238. Teaching and Learning Mathematics
  239. Knowledge and Power
  240. Statistics and the Law
  241. Postscript
  242. Raymond Smullyan
  243. The Fair Sex
  244. Logic Puzzles
  245. New York
  246. High-School Days Continued
  247. Retrograde Analysis and Other Chess Topics
  248. Mathematics
  249. Truth Tables and Acting
  250. Logical Positivism
  251. Symbolic Logic and Theses
  252. Modesty
  253. Magical Days
  254. Teaching Mathematics
  255. Back to School
  256. Hobbies and Horsing Around
  257. Joking Around
  258. Postscript
  259. Olga Taussky-Todd
  260. University Days
  261. Göttingen
  262. Back in Vienna
  263. Bryn Mawr
  264. Emmy Noether
  265. Girton College, Cambridge, England
  266. University of London
  267. World War II
  268. USA: National Bureau of Standards, Princeton, Institute for Numerical Analysis
  269. Washington, D.C.
  270. Honors
  271. Epilogue
  272. Postscript
  273. Apropos
  274. Albert Tucker
  275. A Career as an Actuary?
  276. Mathematics or Physics?
  277. “Princeton Was the Place I Wanted to Go”
  278. How to Write a Thesis
  279. Combinatorial Mathematics
  280. “Unify and Simplify”
  281. “Develop Courses for Students”
  282. The Purpose of a Ph.D.
  283. Founding of the Annals of Mathematics Studies
  284. “Mathematics Must Become More Algorithmic”
  285. References
  286. Postscript
  287. Stanislaw M. Ulam
  288. Decision to Become a Mathematician
  289. Pure versus Applied
  290. Los Alamos and the Bomb
  291. It’s A Wise Father That Knows His Own Bomb
  292. Large Theorems
  293. Monte Carlo Methods
  294. References
  295. Postscript
  296. Biographical Data
  297. Garrett Birkhoff
  298. David Harold Blackwell
  299. Shiing-Shen Chern
  300. John Horton Conway
  301. Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter
  302. Persi Diaconis
  303. Paul Erdös
  304. Martin Gardner
  305. Ronald Lewis Graham
  306. Paul Richard Halmos
  307. Peter John Hilton
  308. John George Kemeny
  309. Morris Kline
  310. Donald Ervin Knuth
  311. Solomon Lefschetz
  312. Benoit Mandelbrot
  313. Henry Otto Pollak
  314. George Pólya
  315. Mina Spiegel Rees
  316. Constance Bowman Reid
  317. Herbert Ellis Robbins
  318. Raymond Smullyan
  319. Olga Taussky-Todd
  320. Albert William Tucker
  321. Stanslaw Marcin Ulam

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