Abraham Robinson : the creation of nonstandard analysis : a personal and mathematical odyssey /

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...

詳細記述

書誌詳細
第一著者: Dauben, Joseph W., 1944- (著者)
その他の著者: Robinson, Abraham, 1918-1974 (honouree.)
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press [1995]
シリーズ:Princeton legacy library
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7ztww3
目次:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD / Mandelbrot, Benoit B.
  • 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