1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996385610603316

Autore

Brooksby P.

Titolo

The milkmaids resolution [[electronic resource] ] : Let young men prate of what they please cause young men have been kind, theyl find no more such foolls as these to please each apish mind. Tune, Cupids Trappan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London], : Printed for P. Brooksby at the Golden Ball in West-Smithfield., [between 1670-1696]

[London] : , : Printed for P. Brooksby at the Golden Ball in West-Smithfield., , 1670

©1696

Descrizione fisica

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts)

Disciplina

398.210942

Soggetti

Ballads, English - 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Date and place of publication suggested by Wing.

Verse: "Of late I did hear a young man domineer ..."

Item at A5:2[273] trimmed.

Reproduction of original in the Harvard University, Houghton Library and the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0067



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910146562103321

Autore

Duren Peter L

Titolo

A century of mathematics in America . Part I

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , 1988

ISBN

0-8218-0124-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (477 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

DurenPeter L

AskeyRichard A

MerzbachUta C. <1933-2017.>

Disciplina

510.973

Soggetti

Mathematics - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Mathematical progress in America; The beginnings of the American Mathematical Society, Reminiscences of Thomas Scott Fiske by T. S. Fiske For the 100th birthday of the American Mathematical Society by J. L. Synge J. J. Sylvester, Johns Hopkins, and Partitions by G. E. Andrews Thomas S. Fiske and Charles S. Peirce by C. Eisele Luther Pfahler Eisenhart by S. Lefschetz Some mathematical reminiscences by D. V. Widder The role of logical investigations in mathematics since 1930 by S. C. Kleene Memories of bygone meetings by R. P. Boas Moscow 1935: Topology moving toward America by H. Whitney Oswald Veblen by D. Montgomery Some books of Auld Lang Syne by P. R. P. R. Halmos Refugee mathematicians in the United States of America, 1933-1941: Reception and reaction by N. Reingold Reminiscences of a mathematical immigrant in the U.S. by S. Lefschetz The threadbare thirties by I. Niven The European mathematicians' migration to America by L. Bers Abraham Adrian Albert by I. Kaplansky A half century of reviewing by D. H. Lehmer American mathematicians in WWI; American mathematicians in War service by G. B. Price The mathematical sciences and World War service by M. Rees Reminiscences of Bletchley Park, 1942-45 by P. Hilton Mathematics and mathematicians in WWII by J. B. Rosser A brief history of the computer by H. H. Goldstine Concepts and categories in perspective by S. Mac Lane Mathematical biography by M. Hall, Jr. merican differential geometry--some personal notes by S.-S.



Chern The mathematical scene, 1940-1965 by G. B. Price Reminiscences of forty years as a mathematician by W. S. Massey The purge by C. Davis The use of mathematics by R. W. Hamming Algorithmic themes by D. E. Knuth The classification of the finite simple groups, a personal journey: The early years. by D. Gorenstein.

Sommario/riassunto

Part of the "History of Mathematics" series, this book presents a variety of perspectives on the political, social, and mathematical forces that have shaped the American mathematical community.