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A Richer Picture of Mathematics

David E. Rowe ()
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David E. Rowe: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Institut für Mathematik

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Date: 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-67819-1
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Chapters in this book:

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