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      Profiles and Interviews

      Mathematical People

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      Mathematical People book

      Profiles and Interviews
      ByDonald Albers, Gerald L. Alexanderson
      Edition 2nd Edition
      First Published 2011
      eBook Published 11 March 2011
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint A K Peters/CRC Press
      DOI https://doi.org/10.1201/b10585
      Pages 416
      eBook ISBN 9780429062537
      Subjects Mathematics & Statistics
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      Albers, D., & Alexanderson, G.L. (2011). Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews (2nd ed.). A K Peters/CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/b10585

      ABSTRACT

      This unique collection contains extensive and in-depth interviews with mathematicians who have shaped the field of mathematics in the twentieth century. Collected by two mathematicians respected in the community for their skill in communicating mathematical topics to a broader audience, the book is also rich with photographs and includes an introdu

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |14 pages

      David Blackwell

      chapter |8 pages

      Shiing-Shen Chern

      chapter |10 pages

      John Horton Conway

      chapter |12 pages

      H. S. M. Coxeter

      chapter |16 pages

      Persi Diaconis

      chapter |12 pages

      Paul Erdős

      chapter |6 pages

      Martin Gardner: Defending the Honor of the Human Mind

      chapter |12 pages

      Martin Gardner: Master of Recreational Mathematics and Much More

      chapter |10 pages

      Ronald L. Graham

      chapter |24 pages

      Paul Halmos

      chapter |18 pages

      Peter J. Hilton

      chapter |16 pages

      John Kemeny

      chapter |12 pages

      Morris Kline

      chapter |24 pages

      Donald Knuth

      chapter |4 pages

      Solomon Lefschetz: A Reminiscence

      chapter |22 pages

      Benoit Mandelbrot

      chapter |18 pages

      Henry Pollak

      chapter |10 pages

      George Pólya

      chapter |12 pages

      Mina Rees

      chapter |12 pages

      Constance Reid

      chapter |18 pages

      Herbert Robbins

      chapter |16 pages

      Raymond Smullyan

      chapter |32 pages

      Olga Taussky-Todd

      chapter |14 pages

      Albert Tucker

      chapter |8 pages

      Stanislaw M. Ulam

      chapter 375|5 pages

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