Discusses the unique characteristics of the first ten numbers, as well as Euler's number and aleph zero

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Two teachers recall the summer of 1943 spent building bombers for the war effort, learning to deal with a wide variety of people, endure life in a factory, and negotiate the tricky new relationships between genders in this formerly male-dominated setting. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Jerzy Neyman received the National Medal of Science "for laying the foundations of modern statistics and devising tests and procedures that have become essential parts of the knowledge of every statistician." Until his death in 1981 at the age of 87, Neyman was vigorously involved in the concerns and controversies of the day, a scientist whose personality and activity were integral parts of his contribution to science...read more

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Product Description: In the tradition of the first volume of Mathematical People comes another collection of interviews and profiles with some of the most prestigious mathematicians of our time. The chapters tell in the mathematicians own words how they became interested in mathematics, how they chose their specialty, and about their hobbies and personal lives...read more

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Product Description: I am very pleased that my books about David Hilbert, published in 1970, and Richard Courant, published in 1976, are now being issued by Springer­ Verlag in a single volume. I have always felt that they belonged together, Courant being, as I have written, the natural and necessary sequel to Hilbert­ the rest of the story...read more