A Century of mathematics in America (History of Mathematics, Vol 3)

Title page......Page 1
Copyright page......Page 2
Table of Contents......Page 3
Preface......Page 7
American Mathematics Comes of Age: 1875--1900  by Karen Hunger Parshall and David E. Rowe......Page 11
UntW. E. Story of Hopkins and Clark by Roger Cooke and V. Frederick Rickey......Page 37
The Best Method. American Calculus Textbooks of the\rNineteenth Century by\rGeorge M. Rosenstein, Jr.......Page 85
Edwards\' Differential Calculus [Reprint] by Charlotte Angas Scott......Page 119
The School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced\rStudy by\r\rArmand Borel......Page 127
Mathematics at Columbia During Adolescence by Edgar R. Lorch......Page 157
The MIT Department of Mathematics During Its First\rSeventy-Five Years: Some Recollections by\r\rDirk J. Struik......Page 171
Mathematics at the University of Michigan by\r\rWilfred Kaplan......Page 187
Reminiscences of Mathematics at Michigan by\r\rRaymond L. Wilder......Page 199
The Building of the University of Texas Mathematics\rFaculty, 1883--1938 by \r\rAlbert C. Lewis......Page 213
Charlotte Angas Scott (1858--1931) [Reprint] by\r\rPatricia Clark Kenschaft......Page 249
Edward Burr Van Vleck, 1863--1943 [Reprint] by\r\rRudolph E. Langer and Mark H. Ingraham......Page 261
The Mathematical Work of R. L. Moore: Its Background,\rNature and Influence [Reprint] by\r\rR. L. Wilder......Page 273
Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler (1883--1966) [Reprint] by\r\rLouise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell......Page 301
Norbert Wiener: A Survey of a Fragment of His Life and\rWork by\r\rP. R. Masani......Page 307
The School of Antoni Zygmund by\rRonald R. Coifman and Robert S. Strichartz......Page 351
Handbooks of Special Functions by\r\rRichard Askey......Page 377
Commemorative Meeting for Alfred Tarski, Stanford\rUniversity--November 7, 1983 by\r\rPatrick Suppes, Jon Barwise, and Solomon Feferman......Page 401
Julia Bowman Robinson (1919--1985) [Reprint] by\r\rConstance Reid with Raphael M. Robinson......Page 413
Function Algebras in the Fifties and Sixties by\r\rJohn Wermer......Page 423
Addendum: Concepts and Categories in Perspective by\r\rSaunders Mac Lane......Page 447
The Joy of Function Theory by\r\rL. V. Ahlfors......Page 451
Black Americans in Mathematics by\rJames A. Donaldson......Page 457
Once Over Lightly by\r\rJ. L. Kelley......Page 479
The Applied Mathematics Group at Columbia in World\rWar II by\r\rSaunders Mac Lane......Page 503
The Education of Ph.D.s in Mathematics by\rSaunders Mac Lane......Page 525
Off the Record by\rEverett Pitcher......Page 533
Mathematical Statistics in the Early States [Reprint] by\rStephen M. Stigler......Page 545
William Feller and Twentieth Century Probability [Reprint] by\r\rJ. L. Doob......Page 573
Early Days in Statistics at Michigan [Reprint] by\rCecil C. Craig......Page 581
S. S. Wilks\' Princeton Appointment, and Statistics at Princeton Before Wilks by\rChurchill Eisenhart......Page 585
A Conversation With David Blackwell [Reprint] by\rMorris H. DeGroot......Page 597
Personal Reflections on Actuarial Science in Nortyh America by\r\rCecil J. Nesbitt......Page 625
The Study of the History of Mathematics in America: A\rCentennial Sketch by\r\rUta C. Merzbach......Page 647
Sources for the History of Mathematics in the Archives of American Mathematics by\rFrederic F. Burchsted......Page 675
Acknowledgments......Page 683