Prologue: The Early Days— A “Colledge” Riseth in the Cowyards

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Prologue: The Early Days— A “Colledge” Riseth in the Cowyards 1
5. 1. Benjamin Peirce and the Science of “Necessary Conclusions” 7
6. 2 Osgood, Bôcher, and the Great Awakening in American Mathematics 32
7. 3. The Dynamical Presence of George David Birkhoff 56
8. 4. Analysis and Algebra Meet Topology: Marston Morse, Hassler Whitney, and Saunders Mac Lane 86
9. 5. Analysis Most Complex: Lars Ahlfors Gives Function Theory a Geometric Spin 116
10. 6. The War and Its Aftermath: Andrew Gleason, George Mackey, and an Assignation in Hilbert Space 141
11. 7. The Europeans: Oscar Zariski, Richard Brauer, and Raoul Bott 166
12. Epilogue: Numbers and Beyond 204
13. Notes 211
14. Index 241