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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Crossing of Heaven
    sub title: Memoirs of a Mathematician
  name:
    name part: Gustafson, Karl.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 176 p. online resource.
  abstract: As one of the most prolific mathematicians of our time, Karl Gustafson has been a central figure in the astonishing technological revolution of the last half-century—a revolution which has transformed human life. This, his own account of his journey through those decades, takes the reader from his early pioneering work in computing and espionage, where his contribution was vital to the American Cold War effort, to his observations on core contemporary issues such as the stability of the world’s financial system. Gustafson’s crucial role in top-secret military intelligence, which saw him tracking Russian submarines, intercepting electronic intelligence and writing the software for America’s first spy satellite, is related here for the first time. His narrative includes fascinating encounters with Nobel laureates and figures of historical importance, the European post-doctoral fellowships that expanded his perspectives on science and life, and hair-raising stories from his early rock-climbing days including brushes with death then and later, such as being struck by lightning and knocked unconscious near a mountain top. Gustafson’s wide-ranging mathematical accomplishments have led to invitations and travel throughout the world, and he tells of the great—and at times strange—personalities he has met along the way. His unique journey has included hard knocks and beautiful women, who have, as he likes to say, added to the great adventure.
  table of contents: Preface -- 1 The Child in Iowa -- 2 The Boy in Boulder -- 3 The Student in Poverty -- 4 Computers and Espionage -- 5 First Publication -- 6 Into Academia -- 7 The World Opens -- 8 Personas and Personalities -- 9 Wives, Lovers, Friends -- 10 Close Calls -- 11 Mathematics -- 12 High Finance -- 13 The Improbabilities -- 14 Realities -- 15 The Crossing of Heaven -- Appendix.
  note: by Karl Gustafson.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Data structures (Computer science)
  subject:
    topic: Applied mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Economics, Mathematical
  subject:
    topic: Computer mathematics
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics, general
  subject:
    topic: Applications of Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Quantitative Finance
  subject:
    topic: Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis
  subject:
    topic: History of Mathematical Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory
  classification: QA1-939
  classification: 510
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783642225581
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22558-1
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    record creation date: 120103
    record change date: 20151204164056.0
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