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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Topology
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Constructive Function Theory
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Front Matter
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Stochastics
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
A glorious period of Hungarian mathematics started in 1900 when Lipót Fejér discovered the summability of Fourier series.This was followed by the discoveries of his disciples in Fourier analysis and in the theory of analytic functions. At the same time Frederic (Frigyes) Riesz created functional analysis and Alfred Haar gave the first example of wavelets. Later the topics investigated by Hungarian mathematicians broadened considerably, and included topology, operator theory, differential equations, probability, etc. The present volume, the first of two, presents some of the most remarkable results achieved in the twentieth century by Hungarians in analysis, geometry and stochastics.
The book is accessible to anyone with a minimum knowledge of mathematics. It is supplemented with an essay on the history of Hungary in the twentieth century and biographies of those mathematicians who are no longer active. A list of all persons referred to in the chapters concludes the volume.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This highly interesting book is more than a report on a glorious period of Hungarian mathematics. It is a survey of twentieth century mathematics describing the development of the fields covered in the book in a broad context. … Readers will surely appreciate brief biographies of 145 Hungarian mathematicians. The book is a valuable contribution to the history of 20th century mathematics. I can recommend it not only to historians of mathematics but to working mathematicians as well." (EMS Newsletter, March, 2007)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Panorama of Hungarian Mathematics in the Twentieth Century, I
Editors: János Horváth
Series Title: Bolyai Society Mathematical Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30721-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-28945-6Published: 27 October 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06698-6Published: 02 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-30721-1Published: 28 June 2010
Series ISSN: 1217-4696
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9460
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: II, 639
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences, History of Science, Analysis, Geometry, Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes