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...
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| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press
[1995]
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| Loạt: | Princeton legacy library
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7ztww3 |
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- 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