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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991000166459707536

Autore

James, Ioan Mackenzie

Titolo

Remarkable mathematicians : from Euler to von Neumann / Ioan James

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : Mathematical Association of America

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002

ISBN

0521520940

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 433 p. : ports. ; 23 cm

Collana

MAA spectrum

Spectrum series / the Mathematical Association of America

Classificazione

AMS 01A05

LC QA28.J36

Disciplina

510.922B

Soggetti

Mathematicians - Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-428)

Nota di contenuto

Preface ; Prologue ; From Euler to Legendre ; From Fourier to Cauchy ; From Abel to Grassmann  ; From Kummer to Cayley ; From Hermite to Sophus Lie ; From Cantor to Hilbert ; From E.H. Moore to Takagi ; From Hardy to Lefschetz ; From Birkhoff to Alexander ; From Banach to von Neumann ; Epilogue ; Further reading ; Collections ;Acknowledgements