James, I. M. 1928-

Remarkable mathematicians: from Euler to von Neumann/ Ioan James. - Washington, DC: Cambridge, UK: New York: Mathematical Association of America, Cambridge University Press, 2002. - xiv, 433 p.: ill.; 24 cm. - Spectrum series . - MAA spectrum .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-428).

Preface -- Prologue -- From Euler to Legendre -- From Fourier to Cauchy -- From Abel to Grassmann -- From Kummer to Cayley -- From Hermite to Sophus Lie -- From Cantor to Hilbert -- From E.H. Moore to Takagi -- From Hardy to Lefschetz -- From Birkhoff to Alexander -- From Banach to von Neumann -- Epilogue -- Further reading -- Collections -- Acknowledgements .

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