Mathematics and mathematicians : mathematics in Sweden before 1950
This book is about mathematics in Sweden between 1630 and 1950 - from S. Klingenstierna to M. Riesz, T. Carleman, and A. Beurling. It tells the story of how continental mathematics came to Sweden, how it was received, and how it inspired new results. The book contains a biography of Gosta Mittag-Leffler, the father of Swedish mathematics, who introduced the Weierstrassian theory of analytic functions and dominated a golden age from 1880 to 1910
Print Book, English, ©1998
American Mathematical Society ; London Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, London, ©1998
History of mathematics, v. 13
History
xiii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
9780821806128, 0821806122
37293309
The eighteenth century The time 1800-1850 A new time in Uppsala and Lund 1860-1890 Algebraic geometry in Lund before 1900 Backlund Uppsala 1860-1900 Gosta Mittag-Leffler--A biography Mittag-Leffler's and Sonya Kovalevski's mathematical papers Astronomy and optics Stockholm University 1880-1920 I Stockholm University 1880-1920 II Uppsala 1900-1930 Lund 1900-1925 Stockholm 1925-1950 Lund 1925-1950 Uppsala 1930-1950 Mathematicians in Sweden 1700-1950 Postscript Index.
Translated from the Swedish