Volume: 8; 1994; 500 pp; Softcover
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The Emergence of the American Mathematical Research Community, 1876–1900: J. J. Sylvester, Felix Klein, and E. H. Moore
Share this pageKaren Hunger Parshall; David E. Rowe
Readership
General mathematical audience, particularly those interested in the history of American mathematics and science.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
The Emergence of the American Mathematical Research Community, 1876-1900: J. J. Sylvester, Felix Klein, and E. H. Moore
- Cover Cover11
- Title page iii4
- Contents v6
- Preface ix10
- Acknowledgments xix20
- Photograph and Figure Credits xxi22
- Chapter 1. An overview of American mathematics: 1776-1876 126
- Chapter 2. A new departmental prototype: J.J. Sylvester and the Johns Hopkins University 5378
- Chapter 3. Mathematics at Sylvester’s Hopkins 99124
- Chapter 4. German mathematics and the early mathematical career of Felix Klein 147172
- Chapter 5. America’s wanderlust generation 189214
- Chapter 6. Changes on the horizon 261286
- Chapter 7. The World’s Columbian exposition of 1893 and the Chicago mathematical congress 295320
- Chapter 8. Surveying mathematical landscapes: The Evanston colloquium lectures 331356
- Chapter 9. Meeting the challenge: The University of Chicago and the American mathematical research community 363388
- Chapter 10. Epilogue: Beyond the threshold: The American mathematical research community, 1900-1933 427452
- Bibliography 455480
- Subject Index 487512
- Back Cover Back Cover1526