Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264) and index.
Contents
Foreword / Reuben Hersh -- Foreword / Robert Sokolowski -- Introduction / Gian-Carlo Rota -- I. Fine Hall in its Golden Age: Remembrances of Princeton in the Early Fifties. Alonzo Church. William Feller. Emil Artin. Solomon Lefschetz -- II. Light Shadows: Yale in the Early Fifties. Jack Schwartz. From Princeton to Yale. Josiah Willard Gibbs. Yale in the Fifties. Mathematics at Yale. Abstraction in Mathematics. Linear Operators: The Past. Linear Operators: The Present. Linear Operators: The Future. Working with Jack Schwartz -- III. Combinatorics, Representation Theory and Invariant Theory: The Story of a Menage a Trois. Cambridge 02138 in the Early Fifties. Alfred Young. Problem Solvers and Theorizers.
