Abraham Robinson (eBook)

The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis, A Personal and Mathematical Odyssey

Joseph Warren Dauben (Autor)

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2014
582 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6409-6 (ISBN)

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One of the most prominent mathematicians of the twentieth century, Abraham Robinson discovered and developed nonstandard analysis, a rigorous theory of infinitesimals that he used to unite mathematical logic with the larger body of historic and modern mathematics. In this first biography of Robinson, Joseph Dauben reveals the mathematician's personal life to have been a dramatic one: developing his talents in spite of war and ethnic repression, Robinson personally confronted some of the worst political troubles of our times. With the skill and expertise familiar to readers of Dauben's earlier works, the book combines an explanation of Robinson's revolutionary achievements in pure and applied mathematics with a description of his odyssey from Hitler's Germany to the United States via conflict-ridden Palestine and wartime Europe.Robinson was born in Prussia in 1918. As a boy, he fled with his mother and brother Saul to Palestine. A decade later he narrowly escaped from Paris as the Germans invaded France. Having spent the rest of World War II in England, at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough, he began his teaching career at the Royal College of Aeronautics. Subsequently he moved to universities in Canada, Israel, and finally the United States. A joint appointment in mathematics and philosophy at UCLA led to a position at Yale University, where Robinson served as Sterling Professor of Mathematics until his untimely death at the age of fifty-five.Originally published in 1995.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Zusatzinfo: 98 halftones 3 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geometrie / Topologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Abraham Robinson • Academic tenure • acclamation • Addition • Algebraically closed field • Algebraic function field • Algebraic integer • algebraic number field • an outpost of progress • Axiom • binary tree • California Institute of Technology • cardinal number • CERN • Certainty • Clark Kerr • compactness theorem • complex number • Concept • condolences • Continuum Hypothesis • counterexample • Deliberation • Dimensional Analysis • Diophantine equation • Dirk van Dalen • Duke of Edinburgh • Dutch profanity • Elliptic Integral • Engineering Physics • Euclidean Geometry • Exact category • formality • fundamental solution • Gottlob Frege • Hiking • Hochschule • hypothesis • Illustration • Infinitesimal • Intuitionism • Invariant subspace • Israel • Israelis • Jacob Talmon • Jean-Paul Sartre • Kent State University • lampshade • Laziness • lectern • Lecture • Lie group • light fixture • Livelihood • Logic • Mathematical Logic • mathematician • Mathematics • Maximal Ideal • Mechanics • metamathematics • model Theory • non-standard analysis • overcoat • Peenemünde • perfect competition • pessimism • philosophy of science • Predicate (mathematical logic) • Primitive Recursive Function • Principia Mathematica • Pronunciation • public administration • Rational number • Rational point • real number • Recipe • Research institute • result • Rheinhessen (wine region) • Richard Dedekind • ring homomorphism • Rolf Nevanlinna • sandbag • Seismic Wave • set theory • Stone Building • Student activism • Supersonic speed • Temperament • Terminology • Theorem • theory • Thesis • Topology • United Nations Security Council • University of Geneva • Well-order • Working Group • W. R. Dean
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6409-7 / 1400864097
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6409-6 / 9781400864096