Indiscrete Thoughts / Gian-Carlo Rota;
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TextPublisher number: :Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. | :E/261, Shastri Nagar DelhiPublication details: Boston : Birkhäuser, ©1997.Description: xxii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780817647803
- 510 ROT
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Foreword / Reuben Hersh --
Foreword / Robert Sokolowski --
Introduction / Gian-Carlo Rota --
I. Fine Hall in its Golden Age: Remembrances of Princeton in the Early Fifties. Alonzo Church. William Feller. Emil Artin. Solomon Lefschetz --
II. Light Shadows: Yale in the Early Fifties. Jack Schwartz. From Princeton to Yale. Josiah Willard Gibbs. Yale in the Fifties. Mathematics at Yale. Abstraction in Mathematics. Linear Operators: The Past. Linear Operators: The Present. Linear Operators: The Future. Working with Jack Schwartz --
III. Combinatorics, Representation Theory and Invariant Theory: The Story of a Menage a Trois. Cambridge 02138 in the Early Fifties. Alfred Young. Problem Solvers and Theorizers.
This volume presents a collection of essays on the computer age, and the future of mathematics, science, and philosophy in general
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