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Mathematics and Mathematicians: Mathematics in Sweden before 1950
About this Title
Lars Gårding, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Publication: History of Mathematics
Publication Year:
1998; Volume 13
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-0612-8 (print); 978-1-4704-3881-4 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/hmath/013
MathSciNet review: MR1488153
MSC: Primary 01A72; Secondary 01A50, 01A55, 01A60, 01A73
Table of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- The eighteenth century
- The time 1800–1850
- A new time in Uppsala and Lund 1860–1890
- Algebraic geometry in Lund before 1900
- Bäcklund
- Uppsala 1860–1900
- Gösta Mittag-Leffler—A biography
- Mittag-Leffler’s and Sonya Kovalevski’s mathematical papers
- Astronomy and optics
- Stockholm University 1880–1920 I
- Stockholm University 1880–1920 II
- Uppsala 1900–1930
- Lund 1900–1925
- Stockholm 1925–1950
- Lund 1925–1950
- Uppsala 1930–1950
- Mathematicians in Sweden
- Postscript