Rota, Gian-Carlo creator Rota, Gian-Carlo Palombi, Fabrizio text Boston : Birkhäuser ©1997 monographic eng

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xxii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm This volume presents a collection of essays on the computer age, and the future of mathematics, science, and philosophy in general 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. / Gian-Carlo Rota; Mathematics Science Philosophy Filosofie Mathematics -- History Mathematics -- Philosophy -- History 510 ROT 9780817647803 :Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. :E/261, Shastri Nagar Delhi 220330 20220330212358.0