Mathematical Lives Protagonists of the Twentieth Century From Hilbert to Wiles /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Bartocci, Claudio (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Betti, Renato (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Guerraggio, Angelo (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Lucchetti, Roberto (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Θέματα: Mathematics.; Computers.; Algebra.; Game theory.; History.; Mathematical logic.; Probabilities.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; History of Computing.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.; Mathematical Logic and Foundations.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.

Steps forward in mathematics often reverberate in other scientific disciplines, and give rise to innovative conceptual developments or find surprising technological applications. This volume brings to the forefront some of the proponents of the mathematics of the twentieth century, who have put at o...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• Hilbert’s Problems.-The Way We Were
• Intermezzo: Verlaine and Poincaré from Etudes littéraires
• B.Russell
• G.H.Hardy
• E.Noether
• Intermezzo: Carciopholus romanus from Furor mathematicus
• P.A.M.Dirac
• J. von Neumann
• K.Gödel
• Intermezzo: In Homage to Gödel
• R.Musil
• A.M.Turing
• R.Caccioppoli
• B. de Finetti
• A.N.Kolmogorov
• Bourbaki
• R.Queneau
• J.F.Nash, Jr
• E.De Giorgi
• L.Schwartz
• R.Thom
• A.Grothendick
• G.-C.Rota
• S.Smale
• M.F. Atiyah
• V.I.Arnold
• E.Bombieri
• M.Gardner
• F.W.Lawvere
• An Interview with A.Wiles.