Mathematical Lives Protagonists of the Twentieth Century From Hilbert to Wiles /

Steps forward in mathematics often reverberate in other scientific disciplines, and give rise to innovative conceptual developments or find surprising technological applications. This volume brings to the forefront some of the proponents of the mathematics of the twentieth century, who have put at o...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: BARTOCCI, CLAUDIO (Editor ), Betti, Renato (Editor ), Guerraggio, Angelo (Editor ), Lucchetti, Roberto (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edición:1st ed. 2011.
Temas:
Mathematics.
History.
Computers-History.
Algebra.
Game theory.
Mathematical logic.
Probabilities.
History of Mathematical Sciences.
History of Computing.
Game Theory.
Mathematical Logic and Foundations.
Probability Theory.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Hilbert's Problems.-The Way We Were
  • Intermezzo: Verlaine and Poincaré from Etudes littéraires
  • B.Russell
  • G.H.Hardy
  • E.Noether
  • Intermezzo: Carciopholus romanus from Furor mathematicus
  • P.A.M.Dirac
  • J. von Neumann
  • K.Gödel
  • Intermezzo: In Homage to Gödel
  • R.Musil
  • A.M.Turing
  • R.Caccioppoli
  • B. de Finetti
  • A.N.Kolmogorov
  • Bourbaki
  • R.Queneau
  • J.F.Nash, Jr
  • E.De Giorgi
  • L.Schwartz
  • R.Thom
  • A.Grothendick
  • G.-C.Rota
  • S.Smale
  • M.F. Atiyah
  • V.I.Arnold
  • E.Bombieri
  • M.Gardner
  • F.W.Lawvere
  • An Interview with A.Wiles.

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