Carl B. Boyer (1906–1976)
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- Boyer, Carl Benjamin
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- 1906-11-03
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- 1976-04-26
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- USA
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- Hellertown, Pennsylvania, USA
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- New York City, New York, USA
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"Another paper of great influence in the trend to abstraction was Ernst Steinitz's work on the algebraic theory of fields, which appeared in the winter of 1909-1910 and had been motivated by Kurt Hensel's work on p-adic fields."
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"Heesch thought that the four-color conjecture could be solved by considering a set of around 8,900 configurations."
I won't say that the book was never interesting [did you know that our "Arabic numbers" are really Indian inspired? Ever since my visit to Egypt many years ago I wondered why their numbers were different from ours.] Anyway, I have enough Science Fiction background that I recognized most of the buzz-words: Riemann fields, topology, tensors, pseudosphere(?), Hermitian matrices....
If I were an advanced student of Mathematics I would definitely give this book a 5-star rating. But, given that I actually was able to plow through the entire book, and comprehended so little, tells even me that the author was not intrinsically boring. There's a phenomenal amount of information in this book; it's just a shame that I understood so little of it. However, I may have been inspired to see if I can find an "advanced math for dummies" book. Just what is "non Euclidean geometry"?… (mehr)