New Directions in Applied Mathematics: Papers Presented April 25/26, 1980, on the Occasion of the Case Centennial Celebration

ISBN 10: 0387906045 / ISBN 13: 9780387906041

Published by Springer, 1981

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• Title: New Directions in Applied Mathematics: Papers Presented April 25/26, 1980, on the Occasion of the Case Centennial Celebration
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387906045
• ISBN 13: 9780387906041
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

It is close enough to the end of the century to make a guess as to what the Encyclopedia Britannica article on the history of mathematics will report in 2582: "We have said that the dominating theme of the Nineteenth Century was the development and application of the theory of functions of one variable. At the beginning of the Twentieth Century, mathematicians turned optimistically to the study off unctions of several variables. But wholly unexpected difficulties were met, new phenomena were discovered, and new fields of mathematics sprung up to study and master them. As a result, except where development of methods from earlier centuries continued, there was a recoil from applications. Most of the best mathematicians of the first two-thirds of the century devoted their efforts entirely to pure mathe­ matics. In the last third, however, the powerful methods devised by then for higher-dimensional problems were turned onto applications, and the tools of applied mathematics were drastically changed. By the end of the century, the temporary overemphasis on pure mathematics was completely gone and the traditional interconnections between pure mathematics and applications restored. "This century also saw the first primitive beginnings of the electronic calculator, whose development in the next century led to our modern methods of handling mathematics.