Softcover

ISBN 10: 0883855356 ISBN 13: 9780883855355

Publisher: Mathematical Assn of Amer, 2001

Long known as a mathematical storyteller, Howard Eves here writes his personal reminiscences mostly mathematical, some not. The cast of characters includes Albert Einstein, Norbert Wiener, Julian Lowell Coolidge, Maurice Frechet, Nathan Altshiller-Court, G. H., Hardy, and many other interesting figures whom he encountered in a long and active life in mathematics.

In "Mathematical Reminiscences" we read of Eves' famous mathematical museum, with its lock of Einstein's hair, Hardy's scarf, Veblen's bright yellow lead pencil, Wiener's hat, and much, much, more.

About the Author:

Howard Eves has enjoyed a long, distinguished career as a teacher, geometer, writer, editor and historian of mathematics. .A renowned teacher and scholar, Eves spent most of his career at the at the University of Maine at Orono, and more recently at Central Florida University. For 25 years he edited the Elementary Problems Section of the American Mathematical Monthly.