Perspectives on American mathematics

Parshall, Karen Hunger

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“…Rowe 1989, 1994;Parshall 2000). The relevant components of the professionalization of American mathematics include important institutions, social factors, and key developments in mathematical research and education.…”

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Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Remmert¹,

Schneider²,

Sørensen³

2016

Trends in the History of Science

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Section: Biographies In the American Mathematical Monthly In Their Lomentioning

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Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Remmert¹,

Schneider²,

Sørensen³

2016

Trends in the History of Science

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“…For contemporary assessments of American methods by the French, see[Schwartz 1927, Dodier & Valiron 1927.12 For an assessment of the lack of effect of World War I on mathematics in the U.S., see[Parshall & Rowe 1994, p. 444]. This view was nuanced in[Parshall 2000].13 See[Smith 1990, Hill n.d.]. The war work of the Cambridge mathematicians is discussed in June Barrow-Green's contribution to this volume.14 On theÉcole polytechnique, see the contribution of Jean-Luc Chabert and Christian Gilain to this volume.…”

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"I’m just a mathematician": Why and how mathematicians collaborated with military ballisticians at Gâvre

Aubin

2014

History of Mathematics

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This chapter examines the way in which mathematicians were led to contribute to ballistic studies in France during World War I. It pays special attention to the French Navy's Gâvre Experiments Commission first established in 1829, where University Professor Jules Haag, Navy Engineer Maurice Garnier and high school teacher Osée Marcus jointly developed a new method for computing ballistic trajectories (the so-called GHM method). It highlights the difficulties and successes encountered by mathematicians when they approached a military culture that was already mathematically sophisticated. It reviews briefly the history of ballistics at Gâvre before the First World War to understand the bitter feeling among artillerymen serving on the front about the inadequacies of their ballistic tables. In a final part, the technical contributions made by mathematicians, their experimental practices, and their efforts to disseminate their results are examined. A focus on various tensions: between civilians and those in the military, between theory and experiment, between frontlines and rearlines, serves as a means to understand the value of the contributions of mathematicians to the war effort.

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“…1 For a discussion of this and the other essays in the Semicentennial Addresses in broader historical context, see [26].…”

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Marshall Stone and the internationalization of the American mathematical research community

Parshall

2009

Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.

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Abstract. The American mathematical research community celebrated, symbolically at least, its fiftieth anniversary in 1938. Many of those fifty years had marked a period of consolidation and growth at home of programs in mathematics at institutions of higher education supportive of high-level research as well as of a corps of talented researchers capable of making seminal contributions in a variety of mathematical areas. By the middle decades of the twentieth century-the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s-members of that community, like members of the broader American public, began increasingly to look outward beyond the national boundaries of the United States and toward a larger international arena. This paper explores the contexts within which the American mathematical research community, in general, and the American mathematician Marshall Stone, in particular, deliberately worked in the decades around mid-century to effect the transformation from a national community to one actively participating in an internationalizing mathematical world.The year 1938 was one of celebration and self-congratulation within the American mathematical research community. Fifty years earlier, four Columbia graduate students and two Columbia faculty members had met in New York City in order "to establish a mathematical society for the purpose of preserving, supplementing, and utilizing the results of their mathematical studies" [3, p. 4]. Within two decades, this extremely modest, local enterprise had grown into a national organization that supported two publications, its Bulletin started in 1891 and its Transactions first published in 1900, as well as regional sections in the midwest, on the west coast, and in the southwest [28, pp. 266-268 and 401-415]. By 1938, the leadership of that organization had recognized that the time was ripe both for chronicling its history and for showcasing the contributions to the store of mathematical knowledge made by the members of the vibrant and self-sustaining national community

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Perspectives on American mathematics

Cited by 13 publications

References 59 publications

Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries

"I’m just a mathematician": Why and how mathematicians collaborated with military ballisticians at Gâvre

Marshall Stone and the internationalization of the American mathematical research community

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