An American goes to Europe: three letters from Oswald Veblen to George Birkhoff in 1913/1914

DOI10.1007/s00283-011-9248-xzbMath1235.01013OpenAlexW1992759393MaRDI QIDQ660176

June Barrow-Green

Publication date: 29 January 2012

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-011-9248-x

zbMATH Keywords

George David BirkhoffKristiania (Oslo), Göttingen, BerlinMathematics before WWIOswald Veblen

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Sociology (and profession) of mathematics (01A80)

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