The new era in American mathematics, 1920-1950:
"The 1920s witnessed the birth of a serious mathematical research community in America. Prior to this, mathematical research was dominated by scholars based in Europe-but World War I had made the importance of scientific and technological development clear to the American research community, re...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "The 1920s witnessed the birth of a serious mathematical research community in America. Prior to this, mathematical research was dominated by scholars based in Europe-but World War I had made the importance of scientific and technological development clear to the American research community, resulting in the establishment of new scientific initiatives and infrastructure. Physics and chemistry were the beneficiaries of this renewed scientific focus, but the mathematical community also benefitted, and over time, began to flourish. Over the course of the next two decades, despite significant obstacles, this constellation of mathematical researchers, programs, and government infrastructure would become one of the strongest in the world. In this meticulously-researched book, Karen Parshall documents the uncertain, but ultimately successful, rise of American mathematics during this time. Drawing on research carried out in archives around the country and around the world, as well as on the secondary literature, she reveals how geopolitical circumstances shifted the course of international mathematics. She provides surveys of the mathematical research landscape in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, introduces the key players and institutions in mathematics at that time, and documents the effect of the Great Depression and the second world war on the international mathematical community. The result is a comprehensive account of the shift of mathematics' "center of gravity" to the American stage"-- "A meticulously researched history on the development of American mathematics in the three decades following World War IAs the Roaring Twenties lurched into the Great Depression, to be followed by the scourge of Nazi Germany and World War II, American mathematicians pursued their research, positioned themselves collectively within American science, and rose to global mathematical hegemony. How did they do it? The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920-1950 explores the institutional, financial, social, and political forces that shaped and supported this community in the first half of the twentieth century. In doing so, Karen Hunger Parshall debunks the widely held view that American mathematics only thrived after European émigrés fled to the shores of the United States.Drawing from extensive archival and primary-source research, Parshall uncovers the key players in American mathematics who worked together to effect change and she looks at their research output over the course of three decades. She highlights the educational, professional, philanthropic, and governmental entities that bolstered progress. And she uncovers the strategies implemented by American mathematicians in their quest for the advancement of knowledge. Throughout, she considers how geopolitical circumstances shifted the course of the discipline.Examining how the American mathematical community asserted itself on the international stage, The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920-1950 shows the ways one nation became the focal point for the field"-- |
| Beschreibung: | xxvii, 605 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 24 cm |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
USED
IN
THE
FOOTNOTES
AND
TABLES
FOR
AMERICAN
MATHEMATICAL
PUBLICATIONS
PART
I.
1920-1929:
WE
ARE EVIDENTLY
ON
THE VERGE OF
IMPORTANT
STEPS
FORWARD
-ROLAND
RICHARDSON,
UNDATED
BUT
EARLY 1926
X1
XXIII
XXVII
1
SURVEYING
THE
1920S RESEARCH
LANDSCAPE
3
MATHEMATICIANS
IN
COLLEGES
AND
UNIVERSITIES
5
A
RECOGNIZED
AMERICAN
SPECIALTY:
ANALYSIS
SITUS
13
GEOMETRIES,
DIFFERENTIAL
AND
ALGEBRAIC 23
ALGEBRAIC
RESEARCH 34
RESEARCH
IN
ANALYSIS
46
AREAS
OF
LESSER AMERICAN INTEREST 57
2
STRENGTHENING
THE
INFRASTRUCTURE
OF
AMERICAN
MATHEMATICS 63
CORPORATIZING
RESEARCH-LEVEL MATHEMATICS
64
RAISING
MONEY
TO
ENABLE
RESEARCH
75
SUSTAINING SUPPORT
FOR
PUBLICATION 82
CHAMPIONING
AMERICAN
ACHIEVEMENTS 93
3 BREAKING
ONTO
THE
INTERNATIONAL SCENE
102
ENGAGING
IN
THE
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
OF
MATHEMATICS
103
AMERICANS ABROAD
113
VII
$
B1IOTHEK
DEUTSCHES
MUSEUM
Y
..
VIII
CONTENTS
EUROPEANS
IN
THE
UNITED STATES
123
AN
ENGLISHMAN
IN
AMERICA
AND
AN
AMERICAN
IN
ENGLAND:
THE HARDY-VEBLEN
EXCHANGE
132
INTERNATIONAL
COMPETITION
AND
COLLABORATION:
THE
CASE
OF
POINT-SET TOPOLOGY
IN
POLAND
AND
THE
UNITED STATES
139
PART 1 1.1929-1941:
A
GENERATION
AGO
WE WERE IN
NEED
OF DIRECT
STIMULATION
...
NOW WE COULD WELL
INTERCHANGE
-GRIFFITH
EVANS,
16
JANUARY,
1934
145
4
SUSTAINING
THE
MOMENTUM?
147
TRYING
TO
DO
MATHEMATICAL
RESEARCH
IN
THE
EARLY
1930S
148
THE
TARGETED
BUILDING
OF
PROGRAMS
IN
THE
1930S
164
ANEW EXPERIMENT: THE INSTITUTE
FORADVANCED
STUDY
171
JOURNALS
IN
AN
EVOLVING
RESEARCH
COMMUNITY
180
5 ADAPTING
TO
GEOPOLITICAL CHANGES
191
INTERNATIONAL
BUSINESS AS
USUAL?
192
EMBRACING
FOREIGN MATHEMATICIANS
199
MATHEMATICIANS
AND
THE
EMERGENCY COMMITTEE
IN AID
OF
DISPLACED
GERMAN SCHOLARS
203
A
FIRST
WAVE
OF
MATHEMATICAL
REFUGEES HITS
THE
NORTHEAST 213
THE
FIRST WAVE
OF
MATHEMATICAL
REFUGEES SPREADS
OVER
THE
REST
OF
THE
COUNTRY
221
6 TAKING STOCK
IN
A
CHANGING WORLD
232
CONFLICTING
PERCEPTIONS
OF
THE
MATHEMATICAL ENDEAVOR
233
DEVELOPMENTS
IN
TOPOLOGY
241
GEOMETRICAL
SHIFTS
251
STRIDES
IN
ALGEBRAIC RESEARCH
261
ANALYSIS
IN
THE
1930S
273
7
LOOKING
BEYOND
THE
UNITED
STATES
287
HOSTING
THE
INTERNATIONAL
CONGRESS
OF
MATHEMATICIANS?
288
CONFRONTING
A
SECOND
WAVE
OF
MATHEMATICAL
EMIGRES
297
CONTENTS
IX
ACCOMMODATING
A
SECOND
WAVE
OF
MATHEMATICAL
EMIGRES
IN
THE
NORTHEAST
307
ACCOMMODATING
A
SECOND
WAVE
OF
MATHEMATICAL
EMIGRES
OUTSIDE
THE
NORTHEAST
316
GEOPOLITICS
AND
MATHEMATICAL
REVIEWING
IN
THE
LATE 1930S
323
PART
III.
1941-1950:
THE
CENTER
OF GRAVITY
OF MATHEMATICS
HAS
MOVED
MORE DEFINITELY
TOWARD
AMERICA
-ROLAND
RICHARDSON, 25 APRIL,
1939
337
8
WAGING
WAR
339
MOBILIZING
AMERICAN
MATHEMATICS
FOR
WAR
340
A NEW
EDUCATIONAL
INITIATIVE:
BROWN S
PROGRAM
OF
ADVANCED
INSTRUCTION
AND
RESEARCH
IN
MECHANICS
350
WAR
WORK
360
TRYING
TO
MAINTAIN PROFESSIONAL
NORMALCY IN
WARTIME
385
9 PICKING
BACK UP
AND
MOVING
ON
IN
THE
POSTWAR
WORLD
397
ADJUSTING
TO
NEW
POLITICAL
REALITIES
398
REESTABLISHING
A
PROFESSIONAL
RHYTHM
405
BUILDING
PROGRAMS
412
DISSEMINATING
POSTWAR
MATHEMATICAL
RESULTS
424
10 SUSTAINING
AND
BUILDING
RESEARCH
AGENDAS
431
THE
PRINCETON BICENTENNIAL
CONFERENCE
ON
PROBLEMS
OF
MATHEMATICS
432
SUSTAINING
AMERICAN
RESEARCH
AGENDAS
443
BUILDING
NEW
AMERICAN
RESEARCH
AGENDAS
460
CODA:
A
NEW
ERA
IN
AMERICAN
MATHEMATICS
476
THE NEW DOMESTIC
POLITICS
OF
MATHEMATICS
477
THE NEW
GEOPOLITICS
OF
MATHEMATICS
484
THE
INTERNATIONAL
CONGRESS
OF
MATHEMATICIANS:
CAMBRIDGE,
MA, 1950
496
REFERENCES
511
INDEX
567
|
| adam_txt |
CONTENTS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
USED
IN
THE
FOOTNOTES
AND
TABLES
FOR
AMERICAN
MATHEMATICAL
PUBLICATIONS
PART
I.
1920-1929:
"WE
ARE EVIDENTLY
ON
THE VERGE OF
IMPORTANT
STEPS
FORWARD"
-ROLAND
RICHARDSON,
UNDATED
BUT
EARLY 1926
X1
XXIII
XXVII
1
SURVEYING
THE
1920S RESEARCH
LANDSCAPE
3
MATHEMATICIANS
IN
COLLEGES
AND
UNIVERSITIES
5
A
RECOGNIZED
AMERICAN
SPECIALTY:
ANALYSIS
SITUS
13
GEOMETRIES,
DIFFERENTIAL
AND
ALGEBRAIC 23
ALGEBRAIC
RESEARCH 34
RESEARCH
IN
ANALYSIS
46
AREAS
OF
LESSER AMERICAN INTEREST 57
2
STRENGTHENING
THE
INFRASTRUCTURE
OF
AMERICAN
MATHEMATICS 63
"CORPORATIZING"
RESEARCH-LEVEL MATHEMATICS
64
RAISING
MONEY
TO
ENABLE
RESEARCH
75
SUSTAINING SUPPORT
FOR
PUBLICATION 82
CHAMPIONING
AMERICAN
ACHIEVEMENTS 93
3 BREAKING
ONTO
THE
INTERNATIONAL SCENE
102
ENGAGING
IN
THE
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
OF
MATHEMATICS
103
AMERICANS ABROAD
113
VII
$
B1IOTHEK
DEUTSCHES
MUSEUM
Y
.
VIII
CONTENTS
EUROPEANS
IN
THE
UNITED STATES
123
AN
ENGLISHMAN
IN
AMERICA
AND
AN
AMERICAN
IN
ENGLAND:
THE HARDY-VEBLEN
EXCHANGE
132
INTERNATIONAL
COMPETITION
AND
COLLABORATION:
THE
CASE
OF
POINT-SET TOPOLOGY
IN
POLAND
AND
THE
UNITED STATES
139
PART 1 1.1929-1941:
"A
GENERATION
AGO
WE WERE IN
NEED
OF DIRECT
STIMULATION
.
NOW WE COULD WELL
INTERCHANGE"
-GRIFFITH
EVANS,
16
JANUARY,
1934
145
4
SUSTAINING
THE
MOMENTUM?
147
TRYING
TO
DO
MATHEMATICAL
RESEARCH
IN
THE
EARLY
1930S
148
THE
TARGETED
BUILDING
OF
PROGRAMS
IN
THE
1930S
164
ANEW EXPERIMENT: THE INSTITUTE
FORADVANCED
STUDY
171
JOURNALS
IN
AN
EVOLVING
RESEARCH
COMMUNITY
180
5 ADAPTING
TO
GEOPOLITICAL CHANGES
191
INTERNATIONAL
BUSINESS AS
USUAL?
192
EMBRACING
FOREIGN MATHEMATICIANS
199
MATHEMATICIANS
AND
THE
EMERGENCY COMMITTEE
IN AID
OF
DISPLACED
GERMAN SCHOLARS
203
A
FIRST
WAVE
OF
MATHEMATICAL
REFUGEES HITS
THE
NORTHEAST 213
THE
FIRST WAVE
OF
MATHEMATICAL
REFUGEES SPREADS
OVER
THE
REST
OF
THE
COUNTRY
221
6 TAKING STOCK
IN
A
CHANGING WORLD
232
CONFLICTING
PERCEPTIONS
OF
THE
MATHEMATICAL ENDEAVOR
233
DEVELOPMENTS
IN
TOPOLOGY
241
GEOMETRICAL
SHIFTS
251
STRIDES
IN
ALGEBRAIC RESEARCH
261
ANALYSIS
IN
THE
1930S
273
7
LOOKING
BEYOND
THE
UNITED
STATES
287
HOSTING
THE
INTERNATIONAL
CONGRESS
OF
MATHEMATICIANS?
288
CONFRONTING
A
SECOND
WAVE
OF
MATHEMATICAL
EMIGRES
297
CONTENTS
IX
ACCOMMODATING
A
SECOND
WAVE
OF
MATHEMATICAL
EMIGRES
IN
THE
NORTHEAST
307
ACCOMMODATING
A
SECOND
WAVE
OF
MATHEMATICAL
EMIGRES
OUTSIDE
THE
NORTHEAST
316
GEOPOLITICS
AND
MATHEMATICAL
REVIEWING
IN
THE
LATE 1930S
323
PART
III.
1941-1950:
THE
"CENTER
OF GRAVITY
OF MATHEMATICS
HAS
MOVED
MORE DEFINITELY
TOWARD
AMERICA"
-ROLAND
RICHARDSON, 25 APRIL,
1939
337
8
WAGING
WAR
339
MOBILIZING
AMERICAN
MATHEMATICS
FOR
WAR
340
A NEW
EDUCATIONAL
INITIATIVE:
BROWN'S
PROGRAM
OF
ADVANCED
INSTRUCTION
AND
RESEARCH
IN
MECHANICS
350
WAR
WORK
360
TRYING
TO
MAINTAIN PROFESSIONAL
NORMALCY IN
WARTIME
385
9 PICKING
BACK UP
AND
MOVING
ON
IN
THE
POSTWAR
WORLD
397
ADJUSTING
TO
NEW
POLITICAL
REALITIES
398
REESTABLISHING
A
PROFESSIONAL
RHYTHM
405
BUILDING
PROGRAMS
412
DISSEMINATING
POSTWAR
MATHEMATICAL
RESULTS
424
10 SUSTAINING
AND
BUILDING
RESEARCH
AGENDAS
431
THE
PRINCETON BICENTENNIAL
CONFERENCE
ON
"PROBLEMS
OF
MATHEMATICS"
432
SUSTAINING
AMERICAN
RESEARCH
AGENDAS
443
BUILDING
"NEW"
AMERICAN
RESEARCH
AGENDAS
460
CODA:
A
NEW
ERA
IN
AMERICAN
MATHEMATICS
476
THE NEW DOMESTIC
POLITICS
OF
MATHEMATICS
477
THE NEW
GEOPOLITICS
OF
MATHEMATICS
484
THE
INTERNATIONAL
CONGRESS
OF
MATHEMATICIANS:
CAMBRIDGE,
MA, 1950
496
REFERENCES
511
INDEX
567 |
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Drawing on research carried out in archives around the country and around the world, as well as on the secondary literature, she reveals how geopolitical circumstances shifted the course of international mathematics. She provides surveys of the mathematical research landscape in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, introduces the key players and institutions in mathematics at that time, and documents the effect of the Great Depression and the second world war on the international mathematical community. 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| spelling | Parshall, Karen Hunger 1955- Verfasser (DE-588)133349799 aut The new era in American mathematics, 1920-1950 Karen Hunger Parshall Princeton ; Oxford Princeton University Press [2022] ©2022 xxvii, 605 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 24 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "The 1920s witnessed the birth of a serious mathematical research community in America. Prior to this, mathematical research was dominated by scholars based in Europe-but World War I had made the importance of scientific and technological development clear to the American research community, resulting in the establishment of new scientific initiatives and infrastructure. Physics and chemistry were the beneficiaries of this renewed scientific focus, but the mathematical community also benefitted, and over time, began to flourish. Over the course of the next two decades, despite significant obstacles, this constellation of mathematical researchers, programs, and government infrastructure would become one of the strongest in the world. In this meticulously-researched book, Karen Parshall documents the uncertain, but ultimately successful, rise of American mathematics during this time. Drawing on research carried out in archives around the country and around the world, as well as on the secondary literature, she reveals how geopolitical circumstances shifted the course of international mathematics. She provides surveys of the mathematical research landscape in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, introduces the key players and institutions in mathematics at that time, and documents the effect of the Great Depression and the second world war on the international mathematical community. The result is a comprehensive account of the shift of mathematics' "center of gravity" to the American stage"-- "A meticulously researched history on the development of American mathematics in the three decades following World War IAs the Roaring Twenties lurched into the Great Depression, to be followed by the scourge of Nazi Germany and World War II, American mathematicians pursued their research, positioned themselves collectively within American science, and rose to global mathematical hegemony. How did they do it? The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920-1950 explores the institutional, financial, social, and political forces that shaped and supported this community in the first half of the twentieth century. In doing so, Karen Hunger Parshall debunks the widely held view that American mathematics only thrived after European émigrés fled to the shores of the United States.Drawing from extensive archival and primary-source research, Parshall uncovers the key players in American mathematics who worked together to effect change and she looks at their research output over the course of three decades. She highlights the educational, professional, philanthropic, and governmental entities that bolstered progress. And she uncovers the strategies implemented by American mathematicians in their quest for the advancement of knowledge. Throughout, she considers how geopolitical circumstances shifted the course of the discipline.Examining how the American mathematical community asserted itself on the international stage, The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920-1950 shows the ways one nation became the focal point for the field"-- Geschichte 1920-1950 gnd rswk-swf Forschung (DE-588)4017894-8 gnd rswk-swf Mathematik (DE-588)4037944-9 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf Mathematics / Research / United States / History / 20th century MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy HISTORY / United States / 20th Century Mathematics / Research United States 1900-1999 History USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g Mathematik (DE-588)4037944-9 s Forschung (DE-588)4017894-8 s Geschichte 1920-1950 z DE-604 Online version Online-Ausgabe 978-0-691-23381-9 Digitalisierung Deutsches Museum application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=033295514&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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