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Offers a comprehensive history of the development of mathematics in the US and Canada. This first volume of a two-volume work takes the reader from the European encounters with North America in the fifteenth century up to the emergence of the United States as a world leader in mathematics in the 1930s.

Table of Contents
  • Part I: Colonial Era and Period of Confederation, 1492-1800: Beginnings
  • Independence
  • Transition 1776: The patriot
  • Part II: New republic, 1800-1876: The age of Bowditch
  • The age of Peirce
  • Transition 1876: Story vs. Klein
  • Part III: Research community, 1876-1900: Sylvester, Klein, AMS
  • Chicago
  • The 1890s
  • Transition 1900: Hilbert's American colony
  • Part IV: Consolidation and growth, 1900-1930: Establishment, 1900-1914
  • Wartime, 1914-1920
  • The Roaring Twenties
  • More Roaring Twenties
  • Transition 1930: Albert vs. Hasse
  • Endnotes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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        Publisher: American Mathematical Society
        Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/12/2019
        ISBN13: 9781470448295, 978-1470448295
        ISBN10: 1470448297

        Description

        Book Synopsis
        Offers a comprehensive history of the development of mathematics in the US and Canada. This first volume of a two-volume work takes the reader from the European encounters with North America in the fifteenth century up to the emergence of the United States as a world leader in mathematics in the 1930s.

        Table of Contents
        • Part I: Colonial Era and Period of Confederation, 1492-1800: Beginnings
        • Independence
        • Transition 1776: The patriot
        • Part II: New republic, 1800-1876: The age of Bowditch
        • The age of Peirce
        • Transition 1876: Story vs. Klein
        • Part III: Research community, 1876-1900: Sylvester, Klein, AMS
        • Chicago
        • The 1890s
        • Transition 1900: Hilbert's American colony
        • Part IV: Consolidation and growth, 1900-1930: Establishment, 1900-1914
        • Wartime, 1914-1920
        • The Roaring Twenties
        • More Roaring Twenties
        • Transition 1930: Albert vs. Hasse
        • Endnotes
        • Bibliography
        • Index.

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