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

DOI10.1007/S00283-011-9248-XMaRDI QIDQ660176zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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 BirkhoffMathematics before WWIOswald VeblenKristiania (Oslo), Göttingen, Berlin

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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