Mathematician for All Seasons Recollections and Notes Vol. 1 (1887-1945) /
This book presents, in his own words, the life of Hugo Steinhaus (1887–1972), noted Polish mathematician of Jewish background, educator, and mathematical popularizer. A student of Hilbert, a pioneer of the foundations of probability and game theory, and a contributor to the development of functional...
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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser,
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Έκδοση: | 1st ed. 2015. |
Σειρά: | Vita Mathematica ;
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Foreword to the first Polish edition
- Introduction to the English edition
- Part I: Jaslo
- The Gymnasium
- In the capital Lwów
- Göttingen
- The return home
- The life of a private scholar
- Part II: In the university town Lwów
- The first occupation
- Interlude: Flashes of memory
- The second occupation
- Homeless wandering
- Osiczyna
- Interlude: Flashes of memory
- Stróze
- Diary entries
- A flash of memory
- Diary entries (continued)
- Between Kraków and Wroclaw
- Wroclaw
- A taste of America
- Wroclaw again
- America again
- Home again
- Index of names.