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476 and 585 pgs. Original-Lw.

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Very good copies, cover with small signs of wear; volume two is a fromer library copy from Sam Houston State University. Crossed out stamp and sticker-label leftover. - Part I and II in two volumes. / Historical Surveys -- The Ph.D. Degree and Mathematical Research [Reprint] R. G. D. Richardson -- Women in American Mathematics: A Century of Contributions Judy Green and Jeanne LaDuke -- Mathematics in American Society William L. Duren, Jr. -- Recollections of a Mathematical Innocent in Washington Leon W. Cohen -- The Flowering of Applied Mathematics in America Peter Lax -- Theodore von Kármán and Applied Mathematics in America [Reprint] John L. Greenberg and Judith R. Goodstein -- Norbert Wiener and Chaos Brockway McMillan -- Some Noncommutativity Methods in Algebraic Number Theory Olga Taussky -- The Geometry Renaissance in America: 1938-1988 Robert Osserman -- The Topological Constraints on Analysis Raoul Bott -- The Development of Intersection Homology Theory Steven L. Kleiman -- Abraham Adrian Albert Irving Kaplansky -- A Half Century of Reviewing -- D. H. Lehmer -- American Mathematicians in WWI G. Baley Price -- American Mathematicians in War Service -- The Mathematical Sciences and World War Service Mina Rees -- Reminiscences of Bletchley Park, 1942-1945 Peter Hilton -- Mathematics and Mathematicians in WWII J. Barkley Rosser -- A Brief History of the Computer Herman H. Goldstine -- Concepts and Categories in Perspective Saunders Mac Lane -- Mathematical Biography Marshall Hall Jr. -- American Differential Geometry-Some Personal Notes Shiing-Shen Chern -- The Mathematical Scene, 1940-1965 G. Baley Price -- Reminiscences of Forty Years as a Mathematician W. S. Massey -- The Purge Chandler Davis -- The Use of Mathematics -- R. W. Hamming -- Algorithmic Themes Donald E. Knuth -- The Classification of the Finite Simple Groups, A Personal Journey: The Early Years -- Daniel Gorenstein -- Acknowledgments / Contents Part II: -- Preface -- Mathematics at American Universities -- HARVARD Mathematics at Harvard, 1836-1944 Garrett Birkhoff -- The Scientific Work of Maxime Bôcher [Reprint] G. D. Birkhoff -- William Fogg Osgood [Reprint] J. L. Walsh -- YALE -- Mathematics and Yale in the Nineteen Twenties Harold Dorwart -- The Scientific Style of Josiah Willard Gibbs [Reprint] Martin J. Klein -- The Department of Mathematics [Reprint] P. F. Smith -- CHICAGO -- Mathematics at the University of Chicago: A Brief History Saunders Mac Lane -- Eliakim Hastings Moore and the Founding of a Mathematical Community in America, 1892-1902 [Reprint] Karen H. Parshall -- Graduate Student at Chicago in the '20s [Reprint] William L. Duren, Jr. -- Reminiscences of Mathematics at Chicago [Reprint] Marshall H. Stone -- The Stone Age of Mathematics on the Midway [Reprint] Felix E. Browder -- PRINCETON -- The Emergence of Princeton as a World Center for Mathematical Research, 1896-1939 [Reprint] William Aspray -- i -- 3 -- Contents -- Preface -- Mathematics at American Universities -- HARVARD Mathematics at Harvard, 1836-1944 Garrett Birkhoff -- The Scientific Work of Maxime Bôcher [Reprint] G. D. Birkhoff -- William Fogg Osgood [Reprint] J. L. Walsh -- YALE -- Mathematics and Yale in the Nineteen Twenties Harold Dorwart -- The Scientific Style of Josiah Willard Gibbs [Reprint] Martin J. Klein -- The Department of Mathematics [Reprint] P. F. Smith -- CHICAGO -- Mathematics at the University of Chicago: A Brief History Saunders Mac Lane -- Eliakim Hastings Moore and the Founding of a Mathematical Community in America, 1892-1902 [Reprint] Karen H. Parshall -- Graduate Student at Chicago in the '20s [Reprint] William L. Duren, Jr. -- Reminiscences of Mathematics at Chicago [Reprint] Marshall H. Stone -- The Stone Age of Mathematics on the Midway [Reprint] Felix E. Browder -- PRINCETON -- The Emergence of Princeton as a World Center for Mathematical Research, 1896-1939 [Reprint] William Aspray -- i -- 3 Historical Surveys -- The Ph.D. Degree and Mathematical Research [Reprint] R. G. D. Richardson -- Women in American Mathematics: A Century of Contributions Judy Green and Jeanne LaDuke -- Mathematics in American Society William L. Duren, Jr. -- Recollections of a Mathematical Innocent in Washington Leon W. Cohen -- The Flowering of Applied Mathematics in America Peter Lax -- Theodore von Kármán and Applied Mathematics in America [Reprint] John L. Greenberg and Judith R. Goodstein -- Norbert Wiener and Chaos Brockway McMillan -- Some Noncommutativity Methods in Algebraic Number Theory Olga Taussky -- The Geometry Renaissance in America: 1938-1988 Robert Osserman -- The Topological Constraints on Analysis Raoul Bott -- The Development of Intersection Homology Theory Steven L. Kleiman.