A Century of Mathematics in America

by Richard A. Askey, Peter L. Duren, Uta C. Merzbach

Deals with some of the influential mathematics departments in the United States. This book also deals with a conference held at Princeton in 1946 to commemorate the university's bicentennial. It covers topics such as the influence of women in American mathematics, the burgeoning of differential geometry, and discussions of the work of von Karman.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821801309
• ISBN13: 9780821801307
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: American Mathematical Society(RI)
• Length: 585 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.