A Century of Mathematics in America

The first section of the book deals with some of the influential mathematics departments in the United States. Functioning as centers of research and training, these departments played a major role in shaping the mathematical life in this country. The second section deals with an extraordinary conference held at Princeton in 1946 to commemorate the university's bicentennial. The influence of women in American mathematics, the burgeoning of differential geometry in the last 50 years, and discussions of the work of von Karman and Weiner are among other topics covered.

The Nineteenth Century American mathematics comes of age, 1875-1900
W. E. Story of Hopkins and Clark
The best method. American calculus textbooks of the nineteenth century
Edwards' differential calculus [Reprint]
Mathematics at American Institutions The School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study
Mathematics at Columbia during adolescence
The MIT department of mathematics during its first seventy-five years. Some recollections
Mathematics at the University of Michigan
Reminiscences of mathematics at Michigan
The building of the University of Texas mathematics faculty, 1883-1938
Mathematics and Mathematicians Charlotte Angas Scott (1858-1931) [Reprint]
Edward Burr Van Vleck, 1863-1943 [Reprint]
The Mathematical Work of R. L. Moore; Its background, nature, and influence [Reprint]
Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler (1883-1966) [Reprint]
Norbert Wiener: A survey of a fragment of his life and work
The school of Antoni Zygmund
Handbooks of special functions
Commemorative meeting for Alfred Tarski
Julia Bowman Robinson (1919-1985) [Reprint]
Function algebras in the fifties and sixties
Addendum: Concepts and categories in perspective
Surveys and Recollections The joy of function theory
Black Americans in mathematics
Once over lightly
Mathematicians in World War II: The group at Columbia
The education of Ph.D's in mathematics
Off the record
Probability, Statistics, and Actuarial Science Mathematical statistics in the early states [Reprint]
William Feller and twentieth century probability [Reprint]
Early days in statistics at Michigan [Reprint]
S. S. Wilks's Princeton appointment and statistics at Princeton before Wilks
A conversation with David Blackwell [Reprint]
Personal reflections on actuarial science in North America from 1900
History of Mathematics Article on American historians of mathematics
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