Mathematical Encounters of the Second KindA number of years ago, Harriet Sheridan, then Dean of Brown University, organized a series oflectures in which individual faculty members described how it came about that they entered their various fields. I was invited to participate in this series and found in the invitation an opportunity to recall events going back to my early teens. The lecture was well received and its reception encouraged me to work up an expanded version. My manuscript lay dormant all these years. In the meanwhile, sufficiently many other mathematical experiences and encounters accumulated to make this little book. My 1981 lecture is the basis of the first piece: "Napoleon's Theorem. " Although there is a connection between the first piece and the second, the four pieces here are essentially independent. The sec ond piece, "Carpenter and the Napoleon Ascription," has as its object a full description of a certain type of scholar-storyteller (of whom I have known and admired several). It is a pastiche, contain ing a salad bar selection blended together by my own imagination. This piece purports, as a secondary goal, to present a solution to a certain unsolved historical problem raised in the first piece. The third piece, "The Man Who Began His Lectures with 'Namely'," is a short reminiscence of Stefan Bergman, one of my teachers of graduate mathematics. Bergman, a remarkable person ality, was born in Poland and came to the United States in 1939. |
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Philip J. Davis. Mathematical Encounters OF THE 2ND KIND Philip J. Davis Birkhäuser Mathematical Encounters of the Second Kind This One 319H -. Front Cover.
Philip J. Davis. Mathematical Encounters OF THE 2ND KIND Philip J. Davis Birkhäuser Mathematical Encounters of the Second Kind This One 319H -. Front Cover.
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Philip J. Davis. Mathematical Encounters of the Second Kind BIRKHÄUSER Boston . Basel . Berlin Division of Applied Mathematics Brown University Providence , RI 02912 Philip J. Davis.
Philip J. Davis. Mathematical Encounters of the Second Kind BIRKHÄUSER Boston . Basel . Berlin Division of Applied Mathematics Brown University Providence , RI 02912 Philip J. Davis.
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... kind / Philip J. Davis . p . cm . ISBN 0-8176-3939 - X ( hardcover : alk . paper ) . -- ISBN 3-7643-3939 - X ( hardcover : alk . paper ) 1. Mathematics . QA10.5.D38 1996 510 -- dc20 2. Mathematicians . I. Title . 96-22131 CIP Printed on ...
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Contents
Napoleons Theorem | 1 |
Carpenter and the Napoleon Ascription | 55 |
The Man Who Began His Lectures with Namely | 137 |
The Rothschild I Knew | 159 |
Acknowledgments | 295 |
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