Author: Karen Hunger Parshall

What is algebra? For some, it is an abstract language of x’s and y’s. For mathematics majors and professional mathematicians, it is a world of axiomatically defined constructs like groups, rings, and …

In the folklore of mathematics, James Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897) is the eccentric, hot-tempered, sword-cane-wielding, nineteenth-century British Jew who, together with the taciturn Arthur Cayley, …

This volume, honoring the renowned historian of science, Allen G Debus, explores ideas of science – `experiences of nature’ – from within a historiographical tradition that Debus has done much to …

A meticulously researched history on the development of American mathematics in the three decades following World War I As the Roaring Twenties lurched into the Great Depression, to be followed by th …

This volume traces the transformation of the United States from a mathematical backwater to a major presence during the quarter-century from 1876 to 1900. Presenting a detailed study of the major …

Although today’s mathematical research community takes its international character very much for granted, this "global nature" is relatively recent, having evolved over a period of roughly …