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A Lost Mathematician, Takeo Nakasawa The Forgotten Father of Matroid Theory /

Matroid theory was invented in the middle of the 1930s by two mathematicians independently, namely, Hassler Whitney in the USA and Takeo Nakasawa in Japan. Whitney became famous, but Nakasawa remained anonymous until two decades ago. He left only four papers to the mathematical community, all of the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Nishimura, Hirokazu (Editor ), Kuroda, Susumu (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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505 0 |a The Life of Takeo Nakasawa -- The Life of Takeo Nakasawa -- South Manchurian Railway Company (1906-1945) -- South Manchurian Railway Company (1906-1945) -- The Road to the Fifteen Years War (1931-1945) -- The Road to the Fifteen Years War (1931-1945) -- The Fifteen Years War (1931-1945) -- The Fifteen Years War (1931-1945) -- Mathematics around Takeo Nakasawa -- Mathematics around Takeo Nakasawa -- Chronological Tables -- Chronological Tables -- Works of Takeo Nakasawa -- Zur Axiomatik der linearen Abhängigkeit. I -- Zur Axiomatik der linearen Abhängigkeit. II -- Zur Axiomatik der linearen Abhängigkeit. III -- Über die Abbildungskette vom Projektionsspektrum -- On Axiomatics of Linear Dependence I: The B-Space -- On Axiomatics of Linear Dependence. II. The B2-Space -- On Axiomatics of Linear Dependence III -- On Mapping Sequences of a Projective Spectrum. 
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