Overview
The theory of lattices, initiated by Dedekind in the past centu- ry, and revived in the thirties by Garrett Birkhoff, F. Klein-Barmen, ore, and von Neumann, is only in our time coming into its own. The fledgling theory was handicapped by a contingent historical circumstance. The peculiarities of mathematical personality of the founders made lattice theory less welcome to the mathematical public of the time than it otherwise might have been. Thus Dedekind was wi- dely thought in his time to be far too abstract for his own good, and some of his peers, notably Kronecker, did not hesitate to state their loud and clear disapproval. Later on, the tempers of Garrett Birkhoff and John von Neumann clashed with those of some of the ""mainstream""' mathematicians of their time. Norman Levinson once related to me the following anecdote about von Neumann. Invited to deliver the weekly mathematics colloquium at Harvard sometime in the thirties, he chose the subject of his current interest, namely, continuous geometries. At the end of the lecture, as the public was streaming out, G. H. Hardy, who was at the time visiting Cambridge, was overheard whispering to G. D. Birkhoff (Gar- rett's father): ""He is quite clearly a very brilliant man, but why does he waste his time on this stuff?"" I myself, when still an assistant professor, was once stopped in the hall of M. I. T.
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Author: Manfred Stern ,
Manfred Stern
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Imprint: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991
Volume: 125
Dimensions:
Width: 14.80cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 0.318kg
ISBN: 9783663124795
ISBN 10: 3663124797
Pages: 237
Publication Date: 20 November 2013
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Language: German
Reviews
"""Professor Stern's book is the first to include the latest developments in the theory of semimodular lattices. His clear presentation, and his readable mathematical style, will make his treatise an indispensable vade mecum for lattice theorists, and for all discrete mathematicians everywhere."" Mathematical Reviews"
""Professor Stern's book is the first to include the latest developments in the theory of semimodular lattices. His clear presentation, and his readable mathematical style, will make his treatise an indispensable vade mecum for lattice theorists, and for all discrete mathematicians everywhere."" Mathematical Reviews
Professor Stern's book is the first to include the latest developments in the theory of semimodular lattices. His clear presentation, and his readable mathematical style, will make his treatise an indispensable vade mecum for lattice theorists, and for all discrete mathematicians everywhere. Mathematical Reviews
