The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950 (eBook)

Karen Hunger Parshall (Autor)

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2022
640 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23381-9 (ISBN)

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A meticulously researched history on the development of American mathematics in the three decades following World War IAs the Roaring Twenties lurched into the Great Depression, to be followed by the scourge of Nazi Germany and World War II, American mathematicians pursued their research, positioned themselves collectively within American science, and rose to global mathematical hegemony. How did they do it? The New Era in American Mathematics, 19201950 explores the institutional, financial, social, and political forces that shaped and supported this community in the first half of the twentieth century. In doing so, Karen Hunger Parshall debunks the widely held view that American mathematics only thrived after European emigres fled to the shores of the United States.Drawing from extensive archival and primary-source research, Parshall uncovers the key players in American mathematics who worked together to effect change and she looks at their research output over the course of three decades. She highlights the educational, professional, philanthropic, and governmental entities that bolstered progress. And she uncovers the strategies implemented by American mathematicians in their quest for the advancement of knowledge. Throughout, she considers how geopolitical circumstances shifted the course of the discipline.Examining how the American mathematical community asserted itself on the international stage, The New Era in American Mathematics, 19201950 shows the way one nation became the focal point for the field.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.2.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 38 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geometrie / Topologie
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Academia Sinica • Acta Arithmetica • Aftermath of World War II • American Association of Physics Teachers • American Council on Education • American Institute of Physics • American Journal of Mathematics • American Mathematical Monthly • American Mathematical Society • American Statistical Association • analytic continuation • An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers • Annals of Mathematical Statistics • Annals of Mathematics • Annals of Science • Applied mathematics • Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society • Chancellor (education) • Characterization (mathematics) • complex number • Connecticut College • division algebra • Dolph Briscoe Center for American History • Duke Mathematical Journal • Edward R. Murrow • Emmy Noether • Estimation theory • Euclidean space • European Mathematical Society • Fourier series • Fundamenta Mathematicae • Georg Cantor • Hilbert's fifth problem • hyperbolic partial differential equation • Ideal (ring theory) • International Congress of Mathematicians • Intersection theory • Introduction to General relativity • John von Neumann • Joint Policy Board for Mathematics • London Mathematical Society • Mathematical Association of America • Mathematical Physics • Mathematical table • mathematician • Mathematics • Methoden der mathematischen Physik • Minkowski space • National Council of Teachers of Mathematics • National Defense Research Committee • National Science Board • New Century • New Direction (think tank) • new idea • New Math • New York Public Library • New York University • New York University Press • Nucleic acid sequence • Number Theory • Patrician (ancient Rome) • physicist • Polish Academy of Sciences • prime number theorem • probability and statistics • Projection (mathematics) • purdue university • Pure Mathematics • Quaternion Algebra • Richard Dedekind • richard von mises • Riemann hypothesis • Riemannian Geometry • Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 • Semisimple algebra • Spectral Theorem • statistician • The Herald-Sun (Durham, North Carolina) • theoretical physics • theory • undergraduate degree • University of Notre Dame • Washington University in St. Louis • Whitney embedding theorem • Word problem (mathematics education) • World War • Yale University Press
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23381-0 / 0691233810
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23381-9 / 9780691233819