[Pt. 4.] Surveys -- Mathematics at the turn of the millennium / Philip A. Griffiths. Evolution of the function concept: a brief survey / Israel Kleiner -- S. Kovalevsky: a mathematical lesson / Karen D. Rappaport -- Highlights in the history of spectral theory / L.A. Steen -- Alan Turing and the central limit theorem / S.L. Zabell -- Why did George Green write his essay of 1828 on electricity and magnetism? / I. Grattan-Guinness -- Connectivity and smoke-rings: Green's second identity in its first fifty years / Thomas Archibald -- The history of Stokes' theorem / Victor J. Katz -- The mathematical collaboration of M.L. Cartwright and J.E. Littlewood / Shawnee L. McMurran and James J. Tattersall -- Dr. David Harold Blackwell, African American pioneer / Nkechi Agwu, Luella Smith and Aissatou Barry -- [Pt. 2.] Geometry, topology and foundations -- Gauss and the non-Euclidean geometry / George Bruce Halsted -- History of the parallel postulate / Florence P. Lewis -- The rise and fall of projective geometry / J.L. Coolidge -- Notes on the history of geometrical ideas / Dan Pedoe -- A note on the history of the Cantor set and Cantor function / Julian F. Fleron -- Evolution of the topological concept of "connected" / R.L. Wilder -- A brief, subjective history of homology and homotopy theory in this century / Peter Hilton -- The origins of modern axiomatics: Pasch to Peano / H.C. Kennedy -- C.S. Pierce's philosophy of infinite sets / Joseph W. Dauben -- On the development of logics between the two world wars / I. Grattan-Guinness -- Dedekind's theorem: [square root of 2] x [square root of 3] = [square root of 6] / David Fowler -- [Pt. 3.] Algebra and number theory -- Hamilton's discovery of quaternions / B.L. van der Waerden -- Hamilton, Rodrigues, and the quaternion scandal / Simon L. Altmann -- Building an international reputation: the case of J.J. Sylvester (1814-1897) / Karen Hunger Parshall and Eugene Seneta -- The foundation period in the history of group theory / Josephine E. Burns -- The evolution of group theory: a brief survey / Israel Kleiner -- The search for finite simple groups / Joseph A. Gallian -- Genius and biographers: the fictionalization of Evariste Galois / Tony Rothman -- Hermann Grassmann and the creation of linear algebra / Desmond Fearnley-Sander -- The roots of commutative algebra in algebraic number theory / Israel Kleiner -- Eisenstein's misunderstood geometric proof of the quadratic reciprocity theorem / Reinhard C. Laubenbacher and David J. Pengelley -- Waring's problem / Charles Small -- A history of the prime number theorem / L.J. Goldstein -- A hundred years of prime numbers / Paul T. Bateman and Harold G. Diamond -- The Indian mathematician Ramanujan / G.H. Hardy -- Emmy Noether / Clark H. Kimberling -- "A marvelous proof" / Fernando Q. GouveĢa -- [Pt. 4.] Surveys -- The International Congress of Mathematics / George Bruce Halsted -- A popular account of some new fields of thought in mathematics / G.A. Miller -- A half-century of mathematics / Hermann Weyl -- Mathematics at the turn of the millennium / Philip A. Griffiths.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.