Recountings

Conversations with MIT Mathematicians
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-56881-713-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 637 g

This book traces the history of the MIT Department of Mathematics—one of the most important mathematics departments in the world—through candid, in-depth, lively conversations with a select and diverse group of its senior members. The process reveals much about the motivation, path, and impact of research mathematicians in a society that owes so much to this little understood and often mystifying section of its intellectual fabric.
At a time when the mathematical experience touches and attracts more laypeople than ever, such a book contributes to our understanding and entertains through its personal approach.

Zielgruppe

A book for mathematics instructors who want to teach their students about the history of the MIT Mathematics Department.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Segel, Joel

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Geschichte der Mathematik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Zipporah (Fagi) Levinson. Isadore M. Singer. Arthur P. Mattuck. Hartley Rogers. Gilbert Strang. Kenneth M. Hoffman. Alar Toomre. Steven L. Kleiman. Harvey P. Greenspan. Bertram Kostant. Michael Artin. Daniel J. Kleitman. Sigurdur Helgason

Über Autor(innen)

Joel Segel, the editor and interviewer, is a writer with a background in the sciences and the son of an accomplished mathematician.