A Lost Mathematician, Takeo Nakasawa The Forgotten Father of Matroid Theory /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Nishimura, Hirokazu (Editor), Kuroda, Susumu (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2009.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; History.; History of Mathematical Sciences.

Matroid theory was invented in the middle of the 1930s by two mathematicians independently, namely, Hassler Whitney in the USA and Takeo Nakasawa in Japan. Whitney became famous, but Nakasawa remained anonymous until two decades ago. He left only four papers to the mathematical community, all of the...