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The Way I Remember It

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Walter Rudin, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Publication: History of Mathematics
Publication Year: 1997; Volume 12
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-0633-3 (print); 978-1-4704-3880-7 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/hmath/012
MathSciNet review: MR1413303
MSC: Primary 01A70; Secondary 01A60

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Table of Contents

Front/Back Matter

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Part I

• Prologue
• Chapter 1. Earliest memories
• Chapter 2. The family
• Chapter 3. Schools
• Chapter 4. Inventions
• Chapter 5. Vacations
• Chapter 6. A bit of history
• Chapter 6. Outlaws
• Chapter 8. Switzerland
• Chapter 9. Paris and Paramé
• Chapter 10. Internments
• Chapter 11. Escape
• Chapter 12. Vichy France
• Chapter 13. De Gaulle’s army
• Chapter 14. Pioneer Corps
• Chapter 15. Navy
• Chapter 16. Avignon
• Chapter 17. War’s end
• Chapter 18. Duke University
• Chapter 19. M.I.T.
• Chapter 20. Rochester
• Epilogue
• Map and photographs

Part II

• Chapter 21. Interchanging limit processes
• Chapter 22. Function algebras
• Chapter 23. Misteaks
• Chapter 24. $\beta \mathbb N$ and $CH$ and all that
• Chapter 25. Idempotent measures
• Chapter 26. Riemann sums
• Chapter 27. Power series with gaps
• Chapter 28. Trigonometric series with gaps
• Chapter 29. Function theory in polydiscs
• Chapter 30. Function theory in balls
• Chapter 31. Holomorphic maps from $\mathbb C^n$ to $\mathbb C^n$

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