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

DOI10.1007/s00283-011-9248-xzbMath1235.01013MaRDI 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 Birkhoff; Kristiania (Oslo), Göttingen, Berlin; Mathematics before WWI; Oswald Veblen

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A60: History of mathematics in the 20th century

01A70: Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies

01A80: Sociology (and profession) of mathematics

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