Mathematical Apocrypha

Stories and Anecdotes of Mathematicians and the Mathematical

Steven G. Krantz

226 pages, parution le 14/03/2003

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Résumé

Mathematical Apocrypha is a book of stories about mathematicians and the mathematical. It differs from other books of its kind in that it includes many stories about contemporary mathematicians. Many of these stories are derived from the author's direct or second-hand engaging style and are enhanced by numerous photographs.

These stories convey the nature of mathematical enterprise, and give the reader a glimpse of mathematical culture.

The author says in the Preface:
I have spent my entire life hanging around academics and have neve rencountered a group that is so hell-bent on telling stories about each other as are mathematicians. With this hook, I plant my flag as a storyteller.

The theme of the book is strictly mathematical. Some of the stories, however, are about people who adhere to mathematics but cannot strictly be called mathematicians. Included are stories about Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, and Albert Einstein, along with stories about mathematicians Erdos, Doob, Besicovitch, Atiyah, Wiener, Mary Ellen and Walter Rudin, Polya, Halmos, Littlewood and many, many more legendary mathematicians.

This book will appeal to students from high school through graduate school, to faculty and to mathematical scientists of all stripes, and also to physicists, engineers, and anyone interested in mathematics.

Contents

Great foolishness
Great affrontery
Great ideas
Great failures
Great pranks
Great people
Further reading

L'auteur - Steven G. Krantz

Steven G. Krantz, currently Professor and Chairman of Mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis, earned his PhD at Princeton University and has taught at UCLA, Princeton University and Pennsylvania State University. He is the recipient of the UCLA Alumni Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award, the MAA's Chauvenet Prize, the MAA Beckenbach Book Award, and the Outstanding Academic Book Award of the Current Review of Academic Libraries. He has written numerous books including: "Function Theory of Several Complex Variables," "Real Analysis and Foundations," "The Geometry of Domains in Space" (with Harold R. Parks), "Function Theory of One Complex Variable" (with Robert E. Greene), "The Implicit Function Theorem" (with Harold Parks). "Complex Analysis: The Geometric Viewpoint," and" A Panorama of Harmonic Analysis" (both for the MAA). He is also the author of over one-hundred research articles.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	The Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
Auteur(s)	Steven G. Krantz
Parution	14/03/2003
Nb. de pages	226
Format	15 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	318g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780883855393
ISBN13	978-0-88385-539-3