The Crossing of Heaven Memoirs of a Mathematician /

• Main Author: Gustafson, Karl (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Data structures (Computer science).; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Economics, Mathematical.; Computer mathematics.; History.; Mathematics, general.; Applications of Mathematics.; Quantitative Finance.; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.

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 e...

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.