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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bartocci, Claudio (Editor), Betti, Renato (Editor), Guerraggio, Angelo (Editor), Lucchetti, Roberto (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.