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The Emergence of the American Mathematical Research Community, 1876–1900: J. J. Sylvester, Felix Klein, and E. H. Moore
About this Title
Karen Hunger Parshall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville and David E. Rowe, University Mainz, Germany
Publication: History of Mathematics
Publication Year:
1994; Volume 8
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-0907-5 (print); 978-1-4704-3876-0 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/hmath/008
MathSciNet review: MR1290994
MSC: Primary 01A72; Secondary 01A55
Table of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- Chapter 1. An overview of American mathematics: 1776-1876
- Chapter 2. A new departmental prototype: J.J. Sylvester and the Johns Hopkins University
- Chapter 3. Mathematics at Sylvester’s Hopkins
- Chapter 4. German mathematics and the early mathematical career of Felix Klein
- Chapter 5. America’s wanderlust generation
- Chapter 6. Changes on the horizon
- Chapter 7. The World’s Columbian exposition of 1893 and the Chicago mathematical congress
- Chapter 8. Surveying mathematical landscapes: The Evanston colloquium lectures
- Chapter 9. Meeting the challenge: The University of Chicago and the American mathematical research community
- Chapter 10. Epilogue: Beyond the threshold: The American mathematical research community, 1900-1933