The Way It Was: Mathematics from the Early Years of the Bulletin
- ISBN-10
- 0821826727
- ISBN-13
- 9780821826720
- Series
- The Way it was
- Category
- Mathematics
- Pages
- 326
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- American Mathematical Soc.
- Author
- Donald Saari
Description
The formative years of the American Mathematical Society coincided with a period of remarkable development in mathematics. During this period, the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society and its predecessor, The Bulletin of the New York Mathematical Society, served as a primary vehicle for reporting this mathematics to American mathematicians. As a result, some of the most important and fundamental work of early twentieth-century mathematics found its way into the Bulletin. Such milestone articles as Hilbert's problems presented at the 1900 Paris ICM, Poincare's 1904 lecture on the future of mathematical physics (with commentary suggesting that he was tantalizingly close to capturing the notion of relativity), and Klein's Erlangen program received added publicity when the first English translation was published in the Bulletin. By reproducing these and other well-written articles from the early Bulletin, this book offers the reader the best way to capture a slice of that time. Other articles in the book include, in particular, a report to American mathematicians of what happened at that important 1900 ICM and three articles from the scientific portion of the 1904 centennial celebration of the Louisiana Purchase: Darboux describing the development of geometry, Pierpont focusing on nineteenth-century mathematics, and Poincare emphasizing mathematical physics. Accompanying the transition from the nineteenth to twentieth century was that new important thing called ``mathematical rigor''. An article by Klein capturing the beliefs of the time with his promotion of rigor is included. These are just some of the many topics reflecting upon the early days in the development of the American mathematical community that can be found in this review of mathematics through the pages of the Bulletin.
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