Indiscrete thoughts / Gian-Carlo Rota ; Fabrizio Palombi, editor
- Bib ID:
- 2906110
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Rota, Gian Carlo, 1932-
- Description:
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- Boston : Birkhauser, c1997
- xxii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0817638660 (alkaline paper)
- 3764338660 (alkaline paper)
- Full contents:
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- Foreword / Reuben Hersh
- Foreword / Robert Sokolowski
- Introduction / Gian-Carlo Rota
- I. Fine Hall in its Golden Age: Remembrances of Princeton in the Early Fifties. Alonzo Church. William Feller. Emil Artin. Solomon Lefschetz
- II. Light Shadows: Yale in the Early Fifties. Jack Schwartz. From Princeton to Yale. Josiah Willard Gibbs. Yale in the Fifties. Mathematics at Yale. Abstraction in Mathematics. Linear Operators: The Past. Linear Operators: The Present. Linear Operators: The Future. Working with Jack Schwartz
- III. Combinatorics, Representation Theory and Invariant Theory: The Story of a Menage a Trois. Cambridge 02138 in the Early Fifties. Alfred Young. Problem Solvers and Theorizers. Hermann Grassmann and Exterior Algebra. Definition and Description in Mathematics. Bottom Lines
- IV. The Barrier of Meaning
- V. Stan Ulam
- VI. The Lost Cafe
- VII. The Pernicious Influence of Mathematics Upon Philosophy
- VIII. Philosophy and Computer Science.
- IX. The Phenomenology of Mathematical Truth
- X. The Phenomenology of Mathematical Beauty
- XI. The Phenomenology of Mathematical Proof
- XII. Syntax, Semantics, and the Problem of the Identity of Mathematical Items
- XIII. The Barber of Seville or the Useless Precaution
- XIV. Kant and Husserl
- XV. Fundierung as a Logical Concept
- XVI. The Primacy of Identity
- XVII. Three Senses of "A is B" in Heidegger
- XVIII. Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught
- XIX. Ten Lessons for the Survival of a Mathematics Department
- XX. A Mathematician's Gossip
- XXI. Book Reviews. Paul Halmos: a Life. The Leading Line of Schaum's Outlines. Professor Neanderthal's World. Uses and Misuses of Numbers. On Reading Collected Papers. Matroids. Short Book Reviews
- Epilogue / Fabrizio Palombi.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-264) and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Palombi, Fabrizio, 1965-
- Copyright:
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