Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics Volume 39 Parts 1 & 2: The Mathematical Heritage of Henri Poincaré [two volume set]

Browder, Felix E.; editor

ISBN 10: 0821814427 / ISBN 13: 9780821814420

Published by American Mathematical Society, Providence, 1983

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Collects all but three papers presented at a week-long symposium held at IU, Bloomington, Indiana; two other papers have been added for a total of 26 papers including Poincaré's 'Résumé Analytique' and Hadamard on Poincaré's mathematical work (in French - the rest are in English). Two volume set, hardcovers, full burgundy cloth, gilt titling. Light wear, minor bumps, ink name on each front free endsheet, faint small stains to half-title of volume 1. Text clean; ix, [3], 435; vi, 470 pages; bibliographies, figures, references, many equations, b/w photo. Size: Large Octavo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics Volume 39 Parts 1 & 2: The Mathematical Heritage of Henri Poincaré [two volume set]
• Publisher: American Mathematical Society, Providence
• Publication Date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0821814427
• ISBN 13: 9780821814420
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Book Type: Set
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mathematics

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Synopsis

On April 7--10, 1980, the American Mathematical Society sponsored a Symposium on the Mathematical Heritage of Henri Poincaré, held at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. This volume presents the written versions of all but three of the invited talks presented at this Symposium (those by W. Browder, A. Jaffe, and J. Mather were not written up for publication). In addition, it contains two papers by invited speakers who were not able to attend, S. S. Chern and L. Nirenberg.

If one traces the influence of Poincaré through the major mathematical figures of the early and midtwentieth century, it is through American mathematicians as well as French that this influence flows, through G. D. Birkhoff, Solomon Lefschetz, and Marston Morse. This continuing tradition represents one of the major strands of American as well as world mathematics, and it is as a testimony to this tradition as an opening to the future creativity of mathematics that this volume is dedicated.