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A Richer Picture of Mathematics

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction to Part I
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    Chapter 2 On Gauss and Gaussian Legends: A Quiz
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    Chapter 3 Gauss, Dirichlet, and the Law of Biquadratic Reciprocity
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    Chapter 4 Episodes in the Berlin-Göttingen Rivalry, 1870–1930
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    Chapter 5 Deine Sonia: A Reading from a Burned Letter by Reinhard Bölling, Translated by D. E. Rowe
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    Chapter 6 Who Linked Hegel’s Philosophy with the History of Mathematics?
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    Chapter 7 Introduction to Part II
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    Chapter 8 Models as Research Tools: Plücker, Klein, and Kummer Surfaces
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    Chapter 9 Debating Grassmann’s Mathematics: Schlegel vs. Klein
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    Chapter 10 Three Letters from Sophus Lie to Felix Klein on Mathematics in Paris
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    Chapter 11 Klein, Mittag-Leffler, and the Klein-Poincaré Correspondence of 1881–1882
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    Chapter 12 Introduction to Part III
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    Chapter 13 Hilbert’s Early Career
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    Chapter 14 Klein, Hurwitz, and the “Jewish Question” in German Academia
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    Chapter 15 On the Background to Hilbert’s Paris Lecture “Mathematical Problems”
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    Chapter 16 Poincaré Week in Göttingen, 22–28 April 1909
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    Chapter 17 Introduction to Part IV
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    Chapter 18 Hermann Minkowski’s Cologne Lecture, “Raum und Zeit”
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    Chapter 19 Max von Laue’s Role in the Relativity Revolution
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    Chapter 20 Euclidean Geometry and Physical Space
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    Chapter 21 The Mathematicians’ Happy Hunting Ground: Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
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    Chapter 22 Einstein’s Gravitational Field Equations and the Bianchi Identities
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    Chapter 23 Puzzles and Paradoxes and Their (Sometimes) Profounder Implications
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    Chapter 24 Debating Relativistic Cosmology, 1917–1924
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    Chapter 25 Remembering an Era: Roger Penrose’s Paper on “Gravitational Collapse: The Role of General Relativity”
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    Chapter 26 Introduction to Part V
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    Chapter 27 Hermann Weyl, The Reluctant Revolutionary
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    Chapter 28 Transforming Tradition: Richard Courant in Göttingen
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    Chapter 29 Otto Neugebauer and the Göttingen Approach to History of the Exact Sciences
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    Chapter 30 On the Myriad Mathematical Traditions of Ancient Greece
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    Chapter 31 The Old Guard Under a New Order: K. O. Friedrichs Meets Felix Klein
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    Chapter 32 An Enchanted Era Remembered: Interview with Dirk Jan Struik
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    Chapter 33 Introduction to Part VI
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    Chapter 34 Is (Was) Mathematics an Art or a Science?
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    Chapter 35 Coxeter on People and Polytopes
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    Chapter 36 Mathematics in Wartime: Private Reflections of Clifford Truesdell
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    Chapter 37 Hilbert’s Legacy: Projecting the Future and Assessing the Past at the 1946 Princeton Bicentennial Conference
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    Chapter 38 Personal Reflections on Dirk Jan Struik By Joseph W. Dauben
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Title
A Richer Picture of Mathematics
Published by
Springer International Publishing, February 2018
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-67819-1
ISBNs
978-3-31-967818-4, 978-3-31-967819-1
Authors

Rowe, David E.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Professor 3 23%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 15%
Student > Master 2 15%
Other 1 8%
Unknown 5 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 8%
Mathematics 1 8%
Linguistics 1 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 8%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 8%
Other 2 15%
Unknown 6 46%