Harmony of the World: 75 Years of Mathematics Magazine - Rilegato

Alexanderson, Gerald L.

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ISBN 10: 0883855607 ISBN 13: 9780883855607

Casa editrice: The Mathematical Association of America, 2007

Riassunto

The best from Mathematics Magazine featuring award-winning articles by a prestigious selection of authors.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Gerald L. Alexanderson is the Valeriote Professor of Science at Santa Clara University in California and former chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

Peter Ross is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Santa Clara University, California.

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Who would expect to find in the pages of Mathematics Magazine the first full treatment of one of the more important and oft-cited twentieth century theorems in analysis, the Stone-Weierstrass Theorem in an article by Marshall Stone himself? Where else would one look for proofs of trigonometric identities using commutative ring theory? Or one of the earliest and best expository articles on the then new Jones knot polynomials, an article that won the prestigious Chauvenet Prize? Or an amusing article purporting to show that the value of p has been time dependent over the years? These and much more are in this collection of the best from Mathematics Magazine.Readers are inundated with new material in the many mathematical journals. Gems from past issues of Mathematics Magazine or the Monthly or the College Mathematics Journal are read with pleasure when they appear but get pushed into the background when the next issues arrive. So from time to time it is rewarding to go back and see just what marvelous material has been published over many years, articles now to some extent forgotten. There is history of mathematics (algebraic numbers, inequalities, probability and the Lebesgue integral, quaternions, Pólya s enumeration theorem, and group theory) and stories of mathematicians (Hypatia, Gauss, E. T. Bell, Hamilton, and Euler).The list of authors is star-studded: E. T. Bell, Otto Neugebauer, D. H. Lehmer, Morris Kline, Einar Hille, Richard Bellman, Judith Grabiner, Paul Erdös, B. L. van der Waerden, Paul R. Halmos, Doris Schattschneider, J. J. Burckhardt, Branko Grünbaum, and many more. Eight of the articles included have received the Carl B. Allendoerfer or Lester R. Ford Awards.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: The Mathematical Association of America
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0883855607
• ISBN 13: 9780883855607
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 302
• Contatto del produttore: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italia