Abraham Robinson : : The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis, A Personal and Mathematical Odyssey / / Joseph Warren Dauben.
One of the most prominent mathematicians of the twentieth century, Abraham Robinson discovered and developed nonstandard analysis, a rigorous theory of infinitesimals that he used to unite mathematical logic with the larger body of historic and modern mathematics. In this first biography of Robinson...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (582 p.) :; 98 halftones 3 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CHAPTER ONE. Family and Childhood: Germany 1918-1933
- CHAPTER TWO. Life in Palestine: 1933-1939
- CHAPTER THREE. Robinson in Paris: January-June 1940
- CHAPTER FOUR. Robinson and the War: London 1940-1946
- CHAPTER FIVE. Robinson after the War: London 1946-1951
- CHAPTER SIX. The University of Toronto: 1951-1957
- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Hebrew University: Jerusalem 1957-1962
- CHAPTER EIGHT. UCLA and Nonstandard Analysis: 1962-1967
- CHAPTER NINE. Robinson Joins the Ivy League: Yale University 1967-1974
- EPILOGUE. Abraham Robinson: The Man and His Mathematics
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX