A Century Of Mathematics: Through The Eyes Of The Monthly (spectrum)
by John Ewing /
1994 / English / DjVu
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This is the story of American mathematics during the past century.
It contains articles and excerpts from a century of the American
Mathematical Monthly, giving the reader an opportunity to skim all
one hundred volumes of this popular mathematics magazine without
actually opening them. It samples mathematics year by year and
decade by decade. The reader can glimpse the mathematical community
at the turn of the century, the controversy about Einstein and
relativity, the debates about formalism in logic, the immigration
of mathematicians from Europe, and the frantic effort to organize
as the war began. More recent articles deal with the advent of
computers and the changes they brought, and with some of the
triumphs of modern research.
This is the story of American mathematics during the past century.
It contains articles and excerpts from a century of the American
Mathematical Monthly, giving the reader an opportunity to skim all
one hundred volumes of this popular mathematics magazine without
actually opening them. It samples mathematics year by year and
decade by decade. The reader can glimpse the mathematical community
at the turn of the century, the controversy about Einstein and
relativity, the debates about formalism in logic, the immigration
of mathematicians from Europe, and the frantic effort to organize
as the war began. More recent articles deal with the advent of
computers and the changes they brought, and with some of the
triumphs of modern research.
