Remarkable Mathematicians: From Euler to von Neumann (Spectrum Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (975 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521520940 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Crabb of Fibrewise Homotopy Theory (Springer-Verlag New York, 1998). James emphasizes their varied life stories, not the details of their mathematical achievements. 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. The book is organized chronologically into ten chapters, each of which contains biographical sketches of six mathematicians. 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. Ioan James is a professor at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. 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. Ioan James introduces and profiles sixty mathematicians from the era when mathematics was freed from its classical origins to develop into its modern form. 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 Mat
The biographies are fairly short and sweet, but it gives a good range of a The biographies are fairly short and sweet, but it gives a good range of a large number of mathematicians. It basically gives you an introduction to them, and then there are other books with much greater detail.. Very good historical account of lives The only reason that this book doesn't get 5 stars is because of the fact that not enough emphasis is placed on the achievements of the mathematicians in terms of their mathematics.However, this does not take away from the fact that is is exteremely well researched, laid out and presented. We get a meaningful insight into how these geniuses (genii?) lived and that fact that they . Captivating! Palle E T Jorgensen Don't miss these captivating tales of the life and the times of mathematicians starting from the period of Tsar Peter the Great of Russia, and right up to recent times, at least up to and including the Cold War. Even if you aren't in math, I think you are likely to be caught up in the drama of the various lives, times, and events. The writing is fast paced and engaging, much like
"For those who plan to teach mathematics, some of these stories would make interesting asides in lectures of any levelRemarkable Mathematicians highlights the importance of personality and human interaction on the development of mathematical theory from the early 18th century to the early 20th century." Math Horizons
. He won both the Junior Berwick and Whitehead Prizes of the London Mathematical Society. Ioan James is the former Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford