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The Polya Picture Album Encounters Of A Mathematician
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Book Synopsis The Pólya Picture Album: Encounters of a Mathematician by : George Pólya
Download or read book The Pólya Picture Album: Encounters of a Mathematician written by George Pólya and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 1987 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pólya was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University. He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory. He is also noted for his work in heuristics and mathematics education. For many years mathematicians visiting Stanford enjoyed guided tours through pages of the Pólya photograph album, led by Pólya himself. This is a selection of the photographs accompanied by remarks taken from tapes of Pólya's conversations with his visitors.
Book Synopsis The Pólya Picture Album by : George Pólya
Download or read book The Pólya Picture Album written by George Pólya and published by . This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Pólya Picture Album: Encounters of a Mathematician by : G.L. Alexanderson
Download or read book The Pólya Picture Album: Encounters of a Mathematician written by G.L. Alexanderson and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 1988-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ver the years mathematicians visiting Stanford sometimes O enjoyed guided tours through the P6lya photograph album led by Professor P6lya himself. He identified pictures and passed along personal reminiscences and stories about individuals and meetings represented there. The album spans the greater part of the twentieth century and, on occasion, reaches back to the nineteenth. A few years ago, at the urging of Donald J. Albers, then editor of the TWo-Year College Mathematics Journal (now the College Mathematics Journal), P6lya and I prepared a small selection of pictures with some descriptive material and anecdotes that usually accompanied tours through the album. This appeared in the September 1983 issue of the Journal. Encouraged by the response to this we put together a more extensive selection of pictures from the collection so that a wider audience can enjoy this encounter with some of the mathematical giants of this century. The pictures derive from a variety of sources, but many of the most interesting were taken by Stella Weber P6lya at mathematical meetings in Europe in the 1920's and 30's and later in Palo Alto. She not only provided most of the photographs but maintained the col lection as well. To her is due most of the credit for the present effort.
Book Synopsis A Richer Picture of Mathematics by : David E. Rowe
Download or read book A Richer Picture of Mathematics written by David E. Rowe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian David E. Rowe captures the rich tapestry of mathematical creativity in this collection of essays from the “Years Ago” column of The Mathematical Intelligencer. With topics ranging from ancient Greek mathematics to modern relativistic cosmology, this collection conveys the impetus and spirit of Rowe’s various and many-faceted contributions to the history of mathematics. Centered on the Göttingen mathematical tradition, these stories illuminate important facets of mathematical activity often overlooked in other accounts. Six sections place the essays in chronological and thematic order, beginning with new introductions that contextualize each section. The essays that follow recount episodes relating to the section’s overall theme. All of the essays in this collection, with the exception of two, appeared over the course of more than 30 years in The Mathematical Intelligencer. Based largely on archival and primary sources, these vignettes offer unusual insights into behind-the-scenes events. Taken together, they aim to show how Göttingen managed to attract an extraordinary array of talented individuals, several of whom contributed to the development of a new mathematical culture during the first decades of the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis Mathematicians under the Nazis by : Sanford L. Segal
Download or read book Mathematicians under the Nazis written by Sanford L. Segal and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-23 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to popular belief--and despite the expulsion, emigration, or death of many German mathematicians--substantial mathematics was produced in Germany during 1933-1945. In this landmark social history of the mathematics community in Nazi Germany, Sanford Segal examines how the Nazi years affected the personal and academic lives of those German mathematicians who continued to work in Germany. The effects of the Nazi regime on the lives of mathematicians ranged from limitations on foreign contact to power struggles that rattled entire institutions, from changed work patterns to military draft, deportation, and death. Based on extensive archival research, Mathematicians under the Nazis shows how these mathematicians, variously motivated, reacted to the period's intense political pressures. It details the consequences of their actions on their colleagues and on the practice and organs of German mathematics, including its curricula, institutions, and journals. Throughout, Segal's focus is on the biographies of individuals, including mathematicians who resisted the injection of ideology into their profession, some who worked in concentration camps, and others (such as Ludwig Bieberbach) who used the "Aryanization" of their profession to further their own agendas. Some of the figures are no longer well known; others still tower over the field. All lived lives complicated by Nazi power. Presenting a wealth of previously unavailable information, this book is a large contribution to the history of mathematics--as well as a unique view of what it was like to live and work in Nazi Germany.
Book Synopsis Mathematical Apocrypha: Stories and Anecdotes of Mathematicians and the Mathematical by : Steven G. Krantz
Download or read book Mathematical Apocrypha: Stories and Anecdotes of Mathematicians and the Mathematical written by Steven G. Krantz and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oxford Figures written by John Fauvel and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the intellectual and social life of a community, and of its interactions with the wider world. For eight centuries mathematics has been researched and studied at Oxford, and the subject and its teaching have undergone profound changes during that time. This highly readable and beautifully illustrated book reveals the richness and influence of Oxford's mathematical tradition and the fascinating characters that helped to shape it. The story begins with the founding of the University of Oxford and the establishing of the medieval curriculum, in which mathematics had an important role. The Black Death, the advent of printing, the Civil War, and the Newtonian revolution all had a great influence on the development of mathematics at Oxford. So too did many well-known figures: Roger Bacon, Henry Savile, Robert Hooke, Christopher Wren, Edmond Halley, Florence Nightingale, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), and G. H. Hardy, to name but a few. Later chapters bring us to the 20th century, with some entertaining reminiscences by Sir Michael Atiyah of the thirty years he spent as an Oxford mathematician. In this second edition the story is brought right up to the opening of the new Mathematical Institute in 2013 with a foreword from Marcus du Sautoy and recent developments from Peter M. Neumann.
Book Synopsis Academic Genealogy Of Mathematicians by : Sooyoung Chang
Download or read book Academic Genealogy Of Mathematicians written by Sooyoung Chang and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As modern mathematics has been developed by mathematicians over the past several hundred years, it is interesting to trace the academic genealogy of mathematicians — especially since all mathematicians learnt mathematics from their teachers. In this book, 750 mathematicians are listed along with the detailed descriptions of 464 famous mathematicians of the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition, interesting life stories and mathematical achievements are included with photographs.
Book Synopsis Biographies of Scientists by : Roger Smith
Download or read book Biographies of Scientists written by Roger Smith and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides more than 500 sources of information on scientists for young and adult general readers and for scholars. These sources explain scientists' accomplishments in the context of the personal and career developments that made those accomplishments possible
Book Synopsis Using the Mathematics Literature by : Kristine K. Fowler
Download or read book Using the Mathematics Literature written by Kristine K. Fowler and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-05-25 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference serves as a reader-friendly guide to every basic tool and skill required in the mathematical library and helps mathematicians find resources in any format in the mathematics literature. It lists a wide range of standard texts, journals, review articles, newsgroups, and Internet and database tools for every major subfield in mathematics and details methods of access to primary literature sources of new research, applications, results, and techniques. Using the Mathematics Literature is the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource on mathematics literature in both print and electronic formats, presenting time-saving strategies for retrieval of the latest information.
Book Synopsis Reading, Writing, and Proving by : Ulrich Daepp
Download or read book Reading, Writing, and Proving written by Ulrich Daepp and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-08-07 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, based on Pólya's method of problem solving, aids students in their transition to higher-level mathematics. It begins by providing a great deal of guidance on how to approach definitions, examples, and theorems in mathematics and ends by providing projects for independent study. Students will follow Pólya's four step process: learn to understand the problem; devise a plan to solve the problem; carry out that plan; and look back and check what the results told them.
Book Synopsis Mathematical Apocrypha Redux by : Steven G. Krantz
Download or read book Mathematical Apocrypha Redux written by Steven G. Krantz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume of anecdotes, stories, quips, and ruminations about mathematics and mathematicians.
Book Synopsis Loving and Hating Mathematics by : Reuben Hersh
Download or read book Loving and Hating Mathematics written by Reuben Hersh and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-13 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the hidden human, emotional, and social dimensions of mathematics Mathematics is often thought of as the coldest expression of pure reason. But few subjects provoke hotter emotions—and inspire more love and hatred—than mathematics. And although math is frequently idealized as floating above the messiness of human life, its story is nothing if not human; often, it is all too human. Loving and Hating Mathematics is about the hidden human, emotional, and social forces that shape mathematics and affect the experiences of students and mathematicians. Written in a lively, accessible style, and filled with gripping stories and anecdotes, Loving and Hating Mathematics brings home the intense pleasures and pains of mathematical life. These stories challenge many myths, including the notions that mathematics is a solitary pursuit and a "young man's game," the belief that mathematicians are emotionally different from other people, and even the idea that to be a great mathematician it helps to be a little bit crazy. Reuben Hersh and Vera John-Steiner tell stories of lives in math from their very beginnings through old age, including accounts of teaching and mentoring, friendships and rivalries, love affairs and marriages, and the experiences of women and minorities in a field that has traditionally been unfriendly to both. Included here are also stories of people for whom mathematics has been an immense solace during times of crisis, war, and even imprisonment—as well as of those rare individuals driven to insanity and even murder by an obsession with math. This is a book for anyone who wants to understand why the most rational of human endeavors is at the same time one of the most emotional.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education by : Louise Grinstein
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education written by Louise Grinstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-03-15 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Probability Theory by : E. T. Jaynes
Download or read book Probability Theory written by E. T. Jaynes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-10 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Index.
Book Synopsis The New Mathematical Coloring Book by : Alexander Soifer
Download or read book The New Mathematical Coloring Book written by Alexander Soifer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Notable Mathematicians by : Robyn V. Young
Download or read book Notable Mathematicians written by Robyn V. Young and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to profiling 300 mathematicians from ancient times to the present day, this volume includes women and minorities, provides a timeline of mathematics, lists winners of mathematical awards and prizes, and indexes its subjects by sex, nationality, and topic.
