Author: Josiah Willard Gibbs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Memoir of Hubert Anson Newton, 1830-1896
Author: Josiah Willard Gibbs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Biographical Memoirs
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385549221
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385549221
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
The Heavens on Fire
Author: Mark Littmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521779791
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Highly readable account of meteors, especially the spectacular Leonid showers, due in mid-November.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521779791
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Highly readable account of meteors, especially the spectacular Leonid showers, due in mid-November.
Memoir of Thomas Lincoln Casey (1831-1896)
Author: Charles Abiathar White
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scientists
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
List of papers contained in v. 1-9 is given in National Academy of Sciences. Proceedings... Index... 1915-24, 1926.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scientists
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
List of papers contained in v. 1-9 is given in National Academy of Sciences. Proceedings... Index... 1915-24, 1926.
History of Astronomy
Author: John Lankford
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136508279
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 615
Book Description
This Encyclopedia traces the history of the oldest science from the ancient world to the space age in over 300 entries by leading experts.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136508279
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 615
Book Description
This Encyclopedia traces the history of the oldest science from the ancient world to the space age in over 300 entries by leading experts.
A History of the First Half-century of the National Academy of Sciences, 1863-1913
Author: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
American Mathematics 1890-1913
Author: Steve Batterson
Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America
ISBN: 0883855909
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
At the turn of the twentieth century, mathematical scholarship in the United States underwent a stunning transformation. In 1890 no American professor was producing mathematical research worthy of international attention. Graduate students were then advised to pursue their studies abroad. By the start of World War I the standing of American mathematics had radically changed. George David Birkhoff, Leonard Dickson, and others were turning out cutting edge investigations that attracted notice in the intellectual centers of Europe. Harvard, Chicago, and Princeton maintained graduate programs comparable to those overseas. This book explores the people, timing, and factors behind this rapid advance. Through the mid-nineteenth century most American colleges followed a classical curriculum that, in mathematics, rarely reached beyond calculus. With no doctoral programs of any sort in the United States until 1860, mathematical scholarship lagged far behind that in Europe. After the Civil War, visionary presidents at Harvard and Johns Hopkins broadened and deepened the opportunities for study. The breakthrough for mathematics began in 1890 with the hiring, in consecutive years, of William F. Osgood and Maxime Bôcher at Harvard and E. H. Moore at Chicago. Each of these young men had studied in Germany where they acquired vital mathematical knowledge and taste. Over the next few years Osgood, Bôcher, and Moore established their own research programs and introduced new graduate courses. Working with other like-minded individuals through the nascent American Mathematical Society, the infrastructure of meetings and journals were created. In the early twentieth century Princeton dramatically upgraded its faculty to give the United States the stability of a third mathematics center. The publication by Birkhoff, in 1913, of the solution to a famous conjecture served notice that American mathematics had earned consideration with the European powers of Germany, France, Italy, England, and Russia.
Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America
ISBN: 0883855909
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
At the turn of the twentieth century, mathematical scholarship in the United States underwent a stunning transformation. In 1890 no American professor was producing mathematical research worthy of international attention. Graduate students were then advised to pursue their studies abroad. By the start of World War I the standing of American mathematics had radically changed. George David Birkhoff, Leonard Dickson, and others were turning out cutting edge investigations that attracted notice in the intellectual centers of Europe. Harvard, Chicago, and Princeton maintained graduate programs comparable to those overseas. This book explores the people, timing, and factors behind this rapid advance. Through the mid-nineteenth century most American colleges followed a classical curriculum that, in mathematics, rarely reached beyond calculus. With no doctoral programs of any sort in the United States until 1860, mathematical scholarship lagged far behind that in Europe. After the Civil War, visionary presidents at Harvard and Johns Hopkins broadened and deepened the opportunities for study. The breakthrough for mathematics began in 1890 with the hiring, in consecutive years, of William F. Osgood and Maxime Bôcher at Harvard and E. H. Moore at Chicago. Each of these young men had studied in Germany where they acquired vital mathematical knowledge and taste. Over the next few years Osgood, Bôcher, and Moore established their own research programs and introduced new graduate courses. Working with other like-minded individuals through the nascent American Mathematical Society, the infrastructure of meetings and journals were created. In the early twentieth century Princeton dramatically upgraded its faculty to give the United States the stability of a third mathematics center. The publication by Birkhoff, in 1913, of the solution to a famous conjecture served notice that American mathematics had earned consideration with the European powers of Germany, France, Italy, England, and Russia.
a History of the Half-Century of the National Academy of Sciences 1863-1913
Author: Committee on the Preparation of the Semi- Centennial Volume
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
A History of the First Half-century of the National Academy of Sciences, 1863-1913
Author: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Publisher: National Academies
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher: National Academies
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Research Catalog of the Library of the American Museum of Natural History
Author: American Museum of Natural History. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description