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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1. Cloth, dj. Minor shelf wear; some scuffing to jacket. Else a bright, clean copy. Honorable Mention Winner in the Biography & Autobiography category of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards given by the Association of American Publishers In this first biographical study of James Joseph Sylvester, Karen Hunger Parshall makes a signal contribution to the history of mathematics, Victorian history, and the history of science. A brilliant Cambridge student at first denied a degree because of his faith, Sylvester came twice to America to teach mathematics, ultimately becoming one of Daniel Coit Gilman's faculty recruits at Johns Hopkins in 1876 and winning the coveted Savilian Professorship of Geometry at Oxford in 1883. He held professorships of natural philosophy, worked as an actuary, was called to the bar, and taught mathematics to cadets training for engineering and artillery posts in the British Army. During his long, distinguished career he also edited England's Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics and established the American Journal of Mathematics, the first sustained mathematics research journal in the United States. Situating Sylvester's life within the political, religious, mathematical, and social currents of nineteenth-century England, Parshall penetrates the myth of this venerated figure, revealing how he lived, the choices he made and why, how the world in which he lived affected him-and how he affected that world. The story of Sylvester's life sheds light on the evolution of mathematical thought. It also examines the ways in which mathematics may be done and what factors may shape a mathematician's ideas. Parshall explores the development of academic professionalization, nineteenth-century mathematical culture, and the emergence of modern algebra as a mathematical discipline. She highlights the human side of what many view as that most arcane and otherworldly of intellectual endeavors, mathematics, which indeed answers to such diverse factors as religion, ego, and depression.…

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Softcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. San Diego, Academic Press (1994). gr.8°. 155 p. Pbck. "This issue . honours the singular achievements of Dirk Jan Struik, who celebrates his 100th birthday on September 30, 1994." (David E. Rowe).- With contributions by David E. Rowe, Helen May Walther, Dirk J. Struik, Gerard Alberts, Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze, Lorraine Daston, Paulus Gerdes, John McCleary. …

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Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. Providence, AMS (1994). gr.8°. Some figs. XXIV, 500 p. Hardbound. (top edge slightly stained).- History of Mathematics, 8.- Incl. bibliography.- Name on flyleaf.

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Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorKaren Hunger Parshall is the Commonwealth Professor of History and Mathematics at the University of Virginia. She is the author of James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World and the.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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 émigrés 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.…

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Zustand: New. Editor(s): Gray, Jeremy J.; Parshall, Karen Hunger. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: PBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. . . 2011. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: New. Brings together essays by twenty experts in the history of mathematics who have investigated the genesis of the international mathematical community. This book includes developments within component national mathematical communities, such as the growth of societies and journals, and wide-ranging political, philosophical, and pedagogical issues. Series: History of Mathematics. Num Pages: 408 pages, index. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; PBB; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 178 x 28. Weight in Grams: 958. . 2002. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - James Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897) was one of the great mathematicians of the 19th century. For the first time 140 letters from Sylvester's correspondence are brought together, accompanied by mathematical and historical commentary from a leading historian of mathematics, to reveal the truth behind the life and work of this eccentric mathematician.…

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