The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950 / / Karen Hunger Parshall.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Parshall, Karen Hunger,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (640 p.) :; 38 b/w illus.

A meticulously researched history on the development of American mathematics in the three decades following World War IAs the Roaring Twenties lurched into the Great Depression, to be followed by the scourge of Nazi Germany and World War II, American mathematicians pursued their research, positioned themselves collectively within American science, and rose to global mathematical hegemony. How did they do it? The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950 explores the institutional, financial, social, and political forces that shaped and supported this community in the first half of the twentieth century. In doing so, Karen Hunger Parshall debunks the widely held view that American mathematics only thrived after European émigrés fled to the shores of the United States.Drawing from extensive archival and primary-source research, Parshall uncovers the key players in American mathematics who worked together to effect change and she looks at their research output over the course of three decades. She highlights the educational, professional, philanthropic, and governmental entities that bolstered progress. And she uncovers the strategies implemented by American mathematicians in their quest for the advancement of knowledge. Throughout, she considers how geopolitical circumstances shifted the course of the discipline.Examining how the American mathematical community asserted itself on the international stage, The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950 shows the ways one nation became the focal point for the field.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE FOOTNOTES AND TABLES FOR AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL PUBLICATIONS -- PART I 1920–1929: “We are evidently on the verge of important steps forward.” -- 1 Surveying the 1920s Research Landscape -- 2 Strengthening the Infrastructure of American Mathematics -- 3 Breaking onto the International Scene -- PART II 1929–1941: “A generation ago we were in need of direct stimulation . . . now we could well interchange.” —Griffith Evans, 16 January, 1934 -- 4 Sustaining the Momentum? -- 5 Adapting to Geopolitical Changes -- 6 Taking Stock in a Changing World -- 7 Looking beyond the United States -- PA RT III 1941–1950: The “center of gravity of mathematics has moved more definitely toward America.” —Roland Richardson, 25 April, 1939 -- 8 Waging War -- 9 Picking Back Up and Moving On in the Postwar World -- 10 Sustaining and Building Research Agendas -- CODA: A new era in American mathematics -- The New Domestic Politics of Mathematics -- The New Geopolitics of Mathematics -- The International Congress of Mathematicians: Cambridge, MA, 1950 -- REFERENCES -- INDEX