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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:
- Garrett Birkhoff
- Lattice Theory
- Collaboration with Mac Lane
- Undergraduate Education
- Childhood and Early Education
- George D. Birkhoff’s Education
- Interest in Applied Algebra
- Interest in Mechanics
- George D. Birkhoff’s Work on the Four Color Problem
- Colleagues in Mexico
- Aesthetic Measure
- David Blackwell
- “Geometry Is a Beautiful Subject!”
- Planned to Be an Elementary School Teacher
- Graduate School and the Institute for Advanced Study
- Statistical Beginnings
- “I’m Sort of a Dilettante”
- Duels
- Blackwell on Teaching
- “Formulas and Symbols—I Don’t Especially Like Them”
- “I Think Proofs by Contradiction Are a Mistake”
- “I Applied Only to Black Institutions”
- Berkeley
- Blackwell on Leadership
- Blacks in Mathematics
- Families and Telephones
- Postscript
- Shiing-Shen Chern
- Postscript
- John Horton Conway
- The Doomsday Algorithm
- References
- Postscript
- H. S. M. Coxeter
- All Those Initials
- Early Interest in Mathematics
- Adventures at Trinity College, Cambridge
- What Is Geometry?
- The Top Geometers
- Elegant Examples
- The Four Color Problem
- Significant Unsolved Problems
- Who Teaches Geometry Best?
- Nice Geometry for Colleges
- Is Geometry Dead?
- References
- Postscript
- Persi Diaconis
- A Magical Beginning
- On the Road
- Martin Gardner and Graduate School
- “Statistics Is the Physics of Numbers”
- The Computer and New-Wave Statistics
- “I’ve Got to Have Applications”
- The Art of Finding Real Problems
- What Is Teaching?
- Psychics and ESP
- Debunking
- The MacArthur Prize
- Teaching Is Terrific”
- A Professorship in Magic
- Postscript
- Paul Erdős
- The Peripatetic Mathematician
- A Mathematical Prodigy
- Changes in the Teaching of Mathematics
- Erdős’s Mathematical Contributions and “The Book ”
- Erdős Numbers and Erdős Lore
- Nobel Prizes: Appropriate for Mathematics?
- Von Neumann and Gödel
- Child Prodigies
- Erdős’s First Two and a Half Billion Years in Mathematics
- Postscript
- Martin Gardner: Defending the Honor of the Human Mind
- Surprises
- Who Is Gardner?
- Mathematical Games
- The Greater Gardner
- Into the Future
- Martin Gardner: Master of Recreational Mathematics and Much More
- Magic
- Tulsa Roots
- Navy Service
- The Horse on the Escalator
- Origin of Writing Interests
- Humpty Dumpty
- Mathematical Games
- The Game of Life
- “I Just Write as Clearly as I Can”
- Philosophical Theism
- Dinner with Gödel
- “I’m Strictly a Journalist”
- Postscript
- Ronald L. Graham
- Calculus at Age 11
- Adding Points
- Complete Disorder Is Impossible
- Acrotheater
- The Berkeley System
- Erdős
- True Mark of Teaching
- Research and Arrows
- Music, Understanding, and Magic
- Postscript
- Paul Halmos
- Part I: Maverick Mathologist
- A Downward-Bound Philosopher
- A College Freshman at Age Fifteen
- “Suddenly I Understood Epsilons!”
- Inspirations
- Mathophysics
- What Is Mathematics?
- Federal Support of Mathematics?
- Why Write about Mathematics?
- Is Applied Mathematics Bad?
- Part II: In Touch with God
- The Best Part
- The Worst Part
- Halmos and the Law
- Practice, Practice
- Doing Mathematics
- The Root of All Deep Mathematics
- Seventy-Five and Worrying
- Father
- Smelling Mathematicians
- Postscript
- Peter J. Hilton
- Struck by a Rolls Royce
- Theatrical Aspirations
- Adopted Children in Africa
- The Advantages of Collaboration
- The Beginning of the Computer
- Mathematical Heroes
- The Decision to Leave England
- Postscript
- John Kemeny
- The Origin of BASIC
- Computing and Active Students
- The Future of Books
- The Hungarian Connection
- Logarithms at Age Nine
- “Einstein Did Need Help in Mathematics”
- Mathematical Literacy
- Postscript
- Morris Kline
- Early Opposition to “New Math”
- “Back-to-Basics” versus “New Math”
- History—A Guide to Pedagogy
- Does Research Affect Teaching?
- A Doctor of Arts Degree for Teachers?
- How to Motivate: Pure versus Applied Mathematics
- Expository Writing for Teachers
- Life at New York University
- Advice to Teachers
- Postscript
- Donald Knuth
- “I Got Headaches from Drawing Those Graphs”
- “I Always Had an Inferiority Complex”
- “I Discovered Computers in My Freshman Year—Before Girls”
- “Students Aren’t Learning How to Write”
- Computer Science versus Mathematics
- Basketball and Computers
- Origin of The Art of Computer Programming
- The Discipline of Writing
- The Roots of METAFONT
- Surreal Numbers
- Artificial Intelligence
- Solomon Lefschetz: A Reminiscence
- References
- Benoit Mandelbrot
- A Fractal Orbit
- The Influence of Lévy
- John von Neumann
- The IBM Fellowship
- How Long Is the Coast of Britain?
- The Rebirth of Geometry
- Computer Graphics
- Old Fractals and New Names
- The Antigeometry of Bourbaki
- The Fractal Manifesto
- New Fields to Conquer
- References
- Postscript
- Henry Pollak
- The Roots of Pollak
- Mathematical Heroes
- Cross-Country Mathematics
- Pollak as Teacher
- Teaching in Industry
- Missed Opportunities in Continuing Education
- Model Building in the Schools
- SMSG and the New Math: Reflections by One of the Pioneers
- The Second Round of SMSG
- Failure of SMSG at the Elementary Level
- Facts versus Opinions on Mathematical Education
- Do Mathematicians Suffer from Reality Anxiety?
- International Activities
- Bell Labs: Managing Mathematicians
- Advice to Academicians on Keeping People Happy
- Airplane Problems
- Is Applied Math Bad?
- Mathematics: Invented or Discovered?
- Postscript
- George Pólya
- Mathematics Is Between Philosophy and Physics
- The Pólya-Weyl Wager
- Mathematical Influences
- The Art of Problem Solving
- How to Solve It
- Postscript
- Mina Rees
- A Woman in Mathematics
- Mathematicians and Public Policy
- Awards and Honors
- Mathematicians During World War II
- Teaching versus Research
- Mathematics and Aesthetics
- Postscript
- Constance Reid
- The Question That Everyone Asks
- The Switch to Biographies
- The Story of Hilbert and Paradise Lost
- The Story of Courant, or Paradise Regained
- The Research on Hilbert
- Hilbert and Courant as Teachers
- Women in Mathematics
- Jerzy Neyman
- Postscript
- Herbert Robbins
- Confrontation with Courant
- Important Influences
- Becoming a Statistician
- The Creative Process
- Competitiveness in Mathematics
- Mathematical Reflections and Projections
- Getting Known in Mathematics
- What Does It Feel Like to Be a Mathematician?
- Teaching and Learning Mathematics
- Knowledge and Power
- Statistics and the Law
- Postscript
- Raymond Smullyan
- The Fair Sex
- Logic Puzzles
- New York
- High-School Days Continued
- Retrograde Analysis and Other Chess Topics
- Mathematics
- Truth Tables and Acting
- Logical Positivism
- Symbolic Logic and Theses
- Modesty
- Magical Days
- Teaching Mathematics
- Back to School
- Hobbies and Horsing Around
- Joking Around
- Postscript
- Olga Taussky-Todd
- University Days
- Göttingen
- Back in Vienna
- Bryn Mawr
- Emmy Noether
- Girton College, Cambridge, England
- University of London
- World War II
- USA: National Bureau of Standards, Princeton, Institute for Numerical Analysis
- Washington, D.C.
- Honors
- Epilogue
- Postscript
- Apropos
- Albert Tucker
- A Career as an Actuary?
- Mathematics or Physics?
- “Princeton Was the Place I Wanted to Go”
- How to Write a Thesis
- Combinatorial Mathematics
- “Unify and Simplify”
- “Develop Courses for Students”
- The Purpose of a Ph.D.
- Founding of the Annals of Mathematics Studies
- “Mathematics Must Become More Algorithmic”
- References
- Postscript
- Stanislaw M. Ulam
- Decision to Become a Mathematician
- Pure versus Applied
- Los Alamos and the Bomb
- It’s A Wise Father That Knows His Own Bomb
- Large Theorems
- Monte Carlo Methods
- References
- Postscript
- Biographical Data
- Garrett Birkhoff
- David Harold Blackwell
- Shiing-Shen Chern
- John Horton Conway
- Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter
- Persi Diaconis
- Paul Erdös
- Martin Gardner
- Ronald Lewis Graham
- Paul Richard Halmos
- Peter John Hilton
- John George Kemeny
- Morris Kline
- Donald Ervin Knuth
- Solomon Lefschetz
- Benoit Mandelbrot
- Henry Otto Pollak
- George Pólya
- Mina Spiegel Rees
- Constance Bowman Reid
- Herbert Ellis Robbins
- Raymond Smullyan
- Olga Taussky-Todd
- Albert William Tucker
- Stanslaw Marcin Ulam
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