TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rota, Gian-Carlo
AU  -  Rota, Gian-Carlo,
AU  - Palombi, Fabrizio
TI  - Indiscrete Thoughts
SN  - 9780817647803
U1  - 510 ROT 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Boston
PB  -  : Birkhäuser, 
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Filosofie
KW  - Mathematics -- History
KW  - Mathematics -- Philosophy -- History
N1  - 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
N2  - This volume presents a collection of essays on the computer age, and the future of mathematics, science, and philosophy in general
ER  -