In the 100 years since the founding of the AMS, the American mathematical community has grown from a small group heavily dependent on European mathematicians to a large and influential group that in many areas sets the standard for the rest of the world. By the 1930s, there was a flourishing mathematical community to welcome the influx of mathematicians fleeing Europe. This volume, the first in the History of Mathematics series, brings together a variety of perspectives on the political, social, and mathematical forces that have shaped the American mathematical community in the past century.

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Co-published with the London Mathematical Society beginning with Volume 4. Members of the LMS may order directly from the AMS at the AMS member price. The LMS is registered with the Charity Commissioners.

Table of Contents

• T. S. Fiske -- Mathematical progress in America; The beginnings of the American Mathematical Society, Reminiscences of Thomas Scott Fiske
• J. L. Synge -- For the 100th birthday of the American Mathematical Society
• G. E. Andrews -- J. J. Sylvester, Johns Hopkins, and Partitions
• C. Eisele -- Thomas S. Fiske and Charles S. Peirce
• S. Lefschetz -- Luther Pfahler Eisenhart
• D. V. Widder -- Some mathematical reminiscences
• S. C. Kleene -- The role of logical investigations in mathematics since 1930
• R. P. Boas -- Memories of bygone meetings
• H. Whitney -- Moscow 1935: Topology moving toward America
• D. Montgomery -- Oswald Veblen
• P. R. P. R. Halmos -- Some books of Auld Lang Syne
• N. Reingold -- Refugee mathematicians in the United States of America, 1933-1941: Reception and reaction
• S. Lefschetz -- Reminiscences of a mathematical immigrant in the U.S.
• I. Niven -- The threadbare thirties
• L. Bers -- The European mathematicians' migration to America
• I. Kaplansky -- Abraham Adrian Albert
• D. H. Lehmer -- A half century of reviewing
• G. B. Price -- American mathematicians in WWI; American mathematicians in War service
• M. Rees -- The mathematical sciences and World War service
• P. Hilton -- Reminiscences of Bletchley Park, 1942-45
• J. B. Rosser -- Mathematics and mathematicians in WWII
• H. H. Goldstine -- A brief history of the computer
• S. Mac Lane -- Concepts and categories in perspective
• M. Hall, Jr. -- Mathematical biography
• S.-S. Chern -- merican differential geometry--some personal notes
• G. B. Price -- The mathematical scene, 1940-1965
• W. S. Massey -- Reminiscences of forty years as a mathematician
• C. Davis -- The purge
• R. W. Hamming -- The use of mathematics
• D. E. Knuth -- Algorithmic themes
• D. Gorenstein -- The classification of the finite simple groups, a personal journey: The early years.