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A Century of Mathematics Through the Eyes of the Monthly
 
Edited by: John Ewing
A Century of Mathematics Through the Eyes of the Monthly
MAA Press: An Imprint of the American Mathematical Society
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-5747-1
Product Code:  SPEC/87.E
List Price: $55.00
MAA Member Price: $41.25
AMS Member Price: $41.25
A Century of Mathematics Through the Eyes of the Monthly
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A Century of Mathematics Through the Eyes of the Monthly
Edited by: John Ewing
MAA Press: An Imprint of the American Mathematical Society
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-5747-1
Product Code:  SPEC/87.E
List Price: $55.00
MAA Member Price: $41.25
AMS Member Price: $41.25
  • Book Details
     
     
    Spectrum
    Volume: 871996; 335 pp

    This is the story of American mathematics during the past century. It contains articles and excerpts from a century of the American Mathematical Monthly, giving the reader an opportunity to skim all one hundred volumes of this popular mathematics magazine without actually opening them. It samples mathematics year by year and decade by decade. The reader can glimpse the mathematical community at the turn of the century, the controversy about Einstein and relativity, the debates about formalism in logic, the immigration of mathematicians from Europe, and the frantic effort to organize as the war began. More recent articles deal with the advent of computers and the changes they brought, and with some of the triumphs of modern research.

  • Table of Contents
     
     
    • Articles
    • 1. The Early Years: 1894–1920
    • 2. A Maturing Association: 1921–1930
    • 3. A Maturing Monthly: 1931–1940
    • 4. Battles and Wars: 1941-1950
    • 5. Mathematics Gets Serious: 1951–1060
    • 6. Mathematics Expands: 1961–1970
    • 7. Modern Times: 1971–1993
  • Reviews
     
     
    • If you have any interest in how things in American mathematics have developed over the last one hundred years, pick up this book. Like members of a family, mathematicians have a heritage and roots to their ancestors, and it does us all good to honor them from time to time.

      Journal of Recreational Mathematics
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Volume: 871996; 335 pp

This is the story of American mathematics during the past century. It contains articles and excerpts from a century of the American Mathematical Monthly, giving the reader an opportunity to skim all one hundred volumes of this popular mathematics magazine without actually opening them. It samples mathematics year by year and decade by decade. The reader can glimpse the mathematical community at the turn of the century, the controversy about Einstein and relativity, the debates about formalism in logic, the immigration of mathematicians from Europe, and the frantic effort to organize as the war began. More recent articles deal with the advent of computers and the changes they brought, and with some of the triumphs of modern research.

  • Articles
  • 1. The Early Years: 1894–1920
  • 2. A Maturing Association: 1921–1930
  • 3. A Maturing Monthly: 1931–1940
  • 4. Battles and Wars: 1941-1950
  • 5. Mathematics Gets Serious: 1951–1060
  • 6. Mathematics Expands: 1961–1970
  • 7. Modern Times: 1971–1993
  • If you have any interest in how things in American mathematics have developed over the last one hundred years, pick up this book. Like members of a family, mathematicians have a heritage and roots to their ancestors, and it does us all good to honor them from time to time.

    Journal of Recreational Mathematics
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