American Mathematics 1890-1913: Catching Up to Europe (Spectrum) 0883855909, 9780883855904

At the turn of the twentieth century, mathematical scholarship in the United States underwent a stunning transformation.

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Table of contents :
American Mathematics 1890-1913: Catching up to Europe
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Contents
Preface
An American colony in Göttingen
19th century American notions of scholarship
Presidents Eliot and Gilman
Harvard and Chicago Hire Osgood, Bôcher, and Moore
The American Mathematical Society and the Transactions
The Princeton preceptors
The verge of parity with European nations
Sources and Acknowledgements
Curriculum for 1849–1850 from the Yale College catalog 1849–1850
Graduate mathematics courses for 1905–1906 from the Harvard President's Report for 1905–06
Graduate mathematics courses for 1905–1906 from the University of Chicago Annual Register of 1904–1905
Bibliography
Index

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