Abraham Robinson : the creation of nonstandard analysis : a personal and mathematical odyssey / Jose...
Abraham Robinson : the creation of nonstandard analysis : a personal and mathematical odyssey / Jose...
Abraham Robinson : the creation of nonstandard analysis : a personal and mathematical odyssey / Joseph Warren Dauben.
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1995.
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T0391799
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English
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xix, 559 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Foreword / Benoit B. Mandelbrot -- Ch. 1. Family and Childhood: Germany 1918-1933 -- Ch. 2. Life in Palestine: 1933-1939 -- Ch. 3. Robinson in Paris: January-June 1940 -- Ch. 4. Robinson and the War: London 1940-1946 -- Ch. 5. Robinson after the War: London 1946-1951 -- Ch. 6. The University of Toro...
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1995.
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New Jersey
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c1995.
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Robinson was born in Prussia in 1918. As a boy, he fled with his mother and brother Saul to Palestine. A decade later he narrowly escaped from Paris as the Germans invaded France. Having spent the rest of World War II in England, at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough, he began his teaching career at the Royal College of Aeronautics. Su...
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Abraham Robinson : the creation of nonstandard analysis : a personal and mathematical odyssey / Joseph Warren Dauben.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [495]-536) and index.
Transferred from N510.92/R658.6/1.
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c1995.
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T0391799
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74VKRbobQvNb
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0691037450 (acid-free paper)
9780691037455 (acid-free paper)
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510.92
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991023247489702626
