Stephen Smale: the mathematician who broke the dimension barrier
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Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xìii
Credits xv
1. One Room Schoolhouse 1
A. Attending the 45th reunion 1
B. Ancestry 3
C. Youth 6
2. Marxism and Mathematics at Ann Arbor 11
A. Freshman year 11
B. On the left 15
C. Mathematics, marriage, and the HUAC 27
3. Early Mathematical Audacity 39
A. The conference in Mexico City 39
B. The University of Chicago 40
C. The Institute for Advanced Study 47
4. On the Beaches of Rio 53
A. Getting settled 53
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B. Early chaos 55
C. The great audacity 59
5. Berkeley to Columbia and Back to Berkeley 69
A. Tenure at Berkeley 69
B. Full professor at Columbia 73
C. Free Speech Movement 77
6. The Lone Ranger of the Antiwar Movement 93
A. Free speech after the FSM 93
B. Vietnam Day 94
C. Troop train protests 104
D. March to Oakland 113
E. Vietnam Protest after the VDC 123
7. The Summer of 1966 129
A. Another Berkeley subculture 129
B. The Nobel Prize and the Fields Medal 130
C. International Congress of Mathematicians in Moscow 137
D. The HUAC hearings 149
8. Smale Versus the National Science Foundation 155
A. Summer fallout 155
B. A brief political history of the NSF 156
C. Project Mohole 159
D. Round 1 160
E. Round 2 170
9. The Aesthetic Side: Minerals and Photography 181
A. Collecting 181
B. Photography 195
10. Adventure and Physical Risks 201
A. First ascent in the Grand Tetons 201
Contents vii
B. Sailing to the Marquesas 203
11. Other People 221
A. Family 221
B. The baby in Peru 224
C. Students 226
D. The Jenny Harrison Case 230
12. Smale the Mathematician 237
A. Depth and breadth of contributions 237
B. What made Smale a great mathematician 245
C. Berkeley to Hong Kong 247
Mathematical Appendix A: Smale s Thesis 251
Mathematical Appendix B: Everting the Sphere 259
Mathematical Appendix C: Chaos and the Horseshoe 265
Mathematical Appendix D: The Higher Dimensional Poincaré
Conjecture 275
Notes 279
Chapter 1. One Room Schoolhouse 279
Chapter 2. Marxism and Mathematics at Ann Arbor 280
Chapter 3. Early Mathematical Audacity 282
Chapter 4. On the Beaches of Rio 283
Chapter 5. Berkeley to Columbia and Back to Berkeley 285
Chapter 6. The Lone Ranger of the Antiwar Movement 287
Chapter 7. The Summer of 1966 291
Chapter 8. Smale Versus the National Science Foundation 294
Chapter 9. The Aesthetic Side: Minerals and Photography 295
Chapter 10. Adventure and Physical Risks 297
Chapter 11. Other People 298
Chapter 12. Smale the Mathematician 299
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Mathematical Appendix A: Smale s Thesis 299
Mathematical Appendix B: Everting the Sphere 300
Mathematical Appendix C: Chaos and the Horseshoe 300
Mathematical Appendix D: The Higher Dimensional Poincaré
Conjecture 300
Index 301
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