Table of contents : American Mathematics 1890-1913: Catching up to Europe copyright page 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