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Reminiscences of the Vienna Circle and the Mathematical Colloquium

Author : Karl Menger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401111022
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Reminiscences of the Vienna Circle and the Mathematical Colloquium written by Karl Menger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Menger was born in Vienna on January 13, 1902, the only child of two gifted parents. His mother Hermione, nee Andermann (1870-1922), in addition to her musical abilities, wrote and published short stories and novelettes, while his father Carl (1840-1921) was the noted Austrian economist, one of the founders of marginal utility theory. A highly cultured man, and a liberal rationalist in the nine teenth century sense, the elder Menger had witnessed the defeat and humiliation of the old Austrian empire by Bismarck's Prussia, and the subsequent establishment under Prussian leadership of a militaristic, mystically nationalistic, state-capitalist German empire - in effect, the first modern "military-industrial complex. " These events helped frame in him a set of attitudes that he later transmitted to his son, and which included an appreciation of cultural attainments and tolerance and respect for cultural differences, com bined with a deep suspicion of rabid nationalism, particularly the German variety. Also a fascination with structure, whether artistic, scientific, philosophical, or theological, but a rejection of any aura of mysticism or mumbo-jumbo accompanying such structure. Thus the son remarked at least once that the archangels' chant that begins the Prolog im Himmel in Goethe's Faust was perhaps the most viii INTRODUCTION beautiful thing in the German language "but of course it doesn't mean anything.

Mathematical Reminiscences

Author : Howard Eves
Publisher : MAA Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mathematical Reminiscences written by Howard Eves and published by MAA Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long known as a mathematical storyteller, Howard Eves writes his personal reminiscences, mostly mathematical, some not. The cast of characters includes Albert Einstein, Norbert Wiener, Julian Lowell Coolidge, Maurice Frechet, Nathan Altshiller-Court, G.H. Hardy, and many other figures whom he encountered in a long life in mathematics.

History of Mathematical Programming

Author : J. K. Lenstra
Publisher : Cwi
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Mathematical Programming written by J. K. Lenstra and published by Cwi. This book was released on 1991 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical span of mathematical programming, from its conception to its present flourishing state is remarkably short. The 1940's and 1950's were an exciting period when there was a great deal of research activity, but the growth of the field during the 1960's and 1970's worldwide already appears to be of historical interest too, because much of the progress during that time has had an important influence on present-day research. In this volume some pioneers of the field, as well as some prominent younger colleagues, have put their personal recollections in writing. The contributions bear witness to a time of impressive scientific progress, in which the rich new field of mathematical programming was detected and brought up.

Mathematics for Human Flourishing

Author : Francis Su
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300237138
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Mathematics for Human Flourishing written by Francis Su and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ancient Greeks argued that the best life was filled with beauty, truth, justice, play and love. The mathematician Francis Su knows just where to find them."--Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine" This is perhaps the most important mathematics book of our time. Francis Su shows mathematics is an experience of the mind and, most important, of the heart."--James Tanton, Global Math Project For mathematician Francis Su, a society without mathematical affection is like a city without concerts, parks, or museums. To miss out on mathematics is to live without experiencing some of humanity's most beautiful ideas. In this profound book, written for a wide audience but especially for those disenchanted by their past experiences, an award-winning mathematician and educator weaves parables, puzzles, and personal reflections to show how mathematics meets basic human desires--such as for play, beauty, freedom, justice, and love--and cultivates virtues essential for human flourishing. These desires and virtues, and the stories told here, reveal how mathematics is intimately tied to being human. Some lessons emerge from those who have struggled, including philosopher Simone Weil, whose own mathematical contributions were overshadowed by her brother's, and Christopher Jackson, who discovered mathematics as an inmate in a federal prison. Christopher's letters to the author appear throughout the book and show how this intellectual pursuit can--and must--be open to all.

Remarkable Mathematicians

Author : Ioan James
Publisher : Mathematical Association of America
ISBN 13 : 9780521817776
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Remarkable Mathematicians written by Ioan James and published by Mathematical Association of America. This book was released on 2003-02-06 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ioan James introduces and profiles sixty mathematicians from the era when mathematics was freed from its classical origins to develop into its modern form. The subjects, all born between 1700 and 1910, come from a wide range of countries, and all made important contributions to mathematics, through their ideas, their teaching, and their influence. James emphasizes their varied life stories, not the details of their mathematical achievements. The book is organized chronologically into ten chapters, each of which contains biographical sketches of six mathematicians. The men and women James has chosen to portray are representative of the history of mathematics, such that their stories, when read in sequence, convey in human terms something of the way in which mathematics developed. Ioan James is a professor at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. He is the author of Topological Topics (Cambridge, 1983), Fibrewise Topology (Cambridge, 1989), Introduction to Uniform Spaces (Cambridge, 1990), Topological and Uniform Spaces (Springer-Verlag New York, 1999), and co-author with Michael C. Crabb of Fibrewise Homotopy Theory (Springer-Verlag New York, 1998). James is the former editor of the London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series and volume editor of numerous books. He is the organizer of the Oxford Series of Topology symposia and other conferences, and co-chairman of the Task Force for Mathematical Sciences of Campaign for Oxford.

Mathematical Memoirs Respecting a Variety of Subjects

Author : John Landen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mathematical Memoirs Respecting a Variety of Subjects written by John Landen and published by . This book was released on 1780 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anticipatory Systems

Author : Robert Rosen
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483286274
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Anticipatory Systems written by Robert Rosen and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first detailed study of this most important class of systems which contain internal predictive models of themselves and/or of their environments and whose predictions are utilized for purposes of present control. This book develops the basic concept of a predictive model, and shows how it can be embedded into a system of feedforward control. Includes many examples and stresses analogies between wired-in anticipatory control and processes of learning and adaption, at both individual and social levels. Shows how the basic theory of such systems throws a new light both on analytic problems (understanding what is going on in an organism or a social system) and synthetic ones (developing forecasting methods for making individual or collective decisions).

The Changing Shape of Geometry

Author : Mathematical Association of America
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521531627
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book The Changing Shape of Geometry written by Mathematical Association of America and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-09 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of popular articles on geometry from distinguished mathematicians and educationalists.

Physical and mathematical memoirs, extracted from the registers of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. tom. 1. pt. 1

Author : Académie des Sciences (PARIS)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Physical and mathematical memoirs, extracted from the registers of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. tom. 1. pt. 1 written by Académie des Sciences (PARIS) and published by . This book was released on 1692 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mathematicians on Creativity

Author : Peter Borwein
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 1470448742
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Mathematicians on Creativity written by Peter Borwein and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to shine a light on some of the issues of mathematical creativity. It is neither a philosophical treatise nor the presentation of experimental results, but a compilation of reflections from top-caliber working mathematicians. In their own words, they discuss the art and practice of their work. This approach highlights creative components of the field, illustrates the dramatic variation by individual, and hopes to express the vibrancy of creative minds at work. Mathematicians on Creativity is meant for a general audience and is probably best read by browsing.

American Mathematics 1890-1913

Author : Steve Batterson
Publisher : The Mathematical Association of America
ISBN 13 : 0883855909
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (838 download)

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Download or read book American Mathematics 1890-1913 written by Steve Batterson and published by The Mathematical Association of America. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twentieth century, mathematical scholarship in the United States underwent a stunning transformation. In 1890 no American professor was producing mathematical research worthy of international attention. Graduate students were then advised to pursue their studies abroad. By the start of World War I the standing of American mathematics had radically changed. George David Birkhoff, Leonard Dickson, and others were turning out cutting edge investigations that attracted notice in the intellectual centers of Europe. Harvard, Chicago, and Princeton maintained graduate programs comparable to those overseas. This book explores the people, timing, and factors behind this rapid advance. Through the mid-nineteenth century most American colleges followed a classical curriculum that, in mathematics, rarely reached beyond calculus. With no doctoral programs of any sort in the United States until 1860, mathematical scholarship lagged far behind that in Europe. After the Civil War, visionary presidents at Harvard and Johns Hopkins broadened and deepened the opportunities for study. The breakthrough for mathematics began in 1890 with the hiring, in consecutive years, of William F. Osgood and Maxime Bôcher at Harvard and E. H. Moore at Chicago. Each of these young men had studied in Germany where they acquired vital mathematical knowledge and taste. Over the next few years Osgood, Bôcher, and Moore established their own research programs and introduced new graduate courses. Working with other like-minded individuals through the nascent American Mathematical Society, the infrastructure of meetings and journals were created. In the early twentieth century Princeton dramatically upgraded its faculty to give the United States the stability of a third mathematics center. The publication by Birkhoff, in 1913, of the solution to a famous conjecture served notice that American mathematics had earned consideration with the European powers of Germany, France, Italy, England, and Russia.

Numerical Methods that Work

Author : Forman S. Acton
Publisher : MAA
ISBN 13 : 9780883854501
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book Numerical Methods that Work written by Forman S. Acton and published by MAA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerical Methods that Work, originally published in 1970, has been reissued by the MAA with a new preface and some additional problems. Acton deals with a commonsense approach to numerical algorithms for the solution of equations: algebraic, transcendental, and differential. He assumes that a computer is available for performing the bulk of the arithmetic. The book is divided into two parts, either of which could form the basis of a one-semester course in numerical methods. Part I discusses most of the standard techniques: roots of transcendental equations, roots of polynomials, eigenvalues of symmetric matrices, and so on. Part II cuts across the basic tools, stressing such commonplace problems as extrapolation, removal of singularities, and loss of significant figures. The book is written with clarity and precision, intended for practical rather than theoretical use. This book will interest mathematicians, both pure and applied, as well as any scientist or engineer working with numerical problems.

Non-Euclidean Geometry: Sixth Edition

Author : H. S. M. Coxeter
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 1614445168
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (144 download)

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Book Synopsis Non-Euclidean Geometry: Sixth Edition by : H. S. M. Coxeter

Download or read book Non-Euclidean Geometry: Sixth Edition written by H. S. M. Coxeter and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1998-12-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reissue of Professor Coxeter's classic text on non-euclidean geometry.

The New Mathematical Coloring Book

Author : Alexander Soifer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 1071635972
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (716 download)

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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:

Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Mathematics

Author : George F. Simmons
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 147045128X
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Mathematics by : George F. Simmons

Download or read book Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Mathematics written by George F. Simmons and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calculus Gems, a collection of essays written about mathematicians and mathematics, is a spin-off of two appendices ("Biographical Notes" and "Variety of Additional Topics") found in Simmons' 1985 calculus book. With many additions and some minor adjustments, the material will now be available in a separate softcover volume. The text is suitable as a supplement for a calculus course and/or a history of mathematics course, The overall aim is bound up in the question, "What is mathematics for?" and in Simmons' answer, "To delight the mind and help us understand the world". The essays are independent of one another, allowing the instructor to pick and choose among them. Part A, "Brief Lives", is a biographical history of mathematics from earliest times (Thales, 625–547 BC) through the late 19th century (Weierstrass, 1815–1897) that serves to connect mathematics to the broader intellectual and social history of Western civilization. Part B, "Memorable Mathematics", is a collection of interesting topics from number theory, geometry, and science arranged in an order roughly corresponding to the order of most calculus courses. Some of these sections have a few problems for the student to solve. Students can gain perspective on the mathematical experience and learn some mathematics not contained in the usual courses, and instructors can assign student papers and projects based on the essays. The book teaches by example that mathematics is more than computation. Original illustrations of influential mathematicians in history and their inventions accompany the brief biographies and mathematical discussions.

777 Mathematical Conversation Starters

Author : John de Pillis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780883855409
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (554 download)

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Download or read book 777 Mathematical Conversation Starters written by John de Pillis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated book showing that there are few degrees of separation between mathematics and topics that provoke interesting conversations.

The Early Mathematics of Leonhard Euler

Author : C. Edward Sandifer
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 1470451808
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Early Mathematics of Leonhard Euler written by C. Edward Sandifer and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Early Mathematics of Leonhard Euler gives an article-by-article description of Leonhard Euler's early mathematical works; the 50 or so mathematical articles he wrote before he left St. Petersburg in 1741 to join the Academy of Frederick the Great in Berlin. These early pieces contain some of Euler's greatest work, the Konigsberg bridge problem, his solution to the Basel problem, and his first proof of the Euler-Fermat theorem. It also presents important results that we seldom realize are due to Euler; that mixed partial derivatives are (usually) equal, our f(x) f(x) notation, and the integrating factor in differential equations. The books shows how contributions in diverse fields are related, how number theory relates to series, which, in turn, relate to elliptic integrals and then to differential equations. There are dozens of such strands in this beautiful web of mathematics. At the same time, we see Euler grow in power and sophistication, from a young student when at 18 he published his first work on differential equations (a paper with a serious flaw) to the most celebrated mathematician and scientist of his time. It is a portrait of the world's most exciting mathematics between 1725 and 1741, rich in technical detail, woven with connections within Euler's work and with the work of other mathematicians in other times and places, laced with historical context.