- Preface
- Prologue: The Early Days—A “Colledge” Riseth in the Cowyards
- 1. Benjamin Peirce and the Science of “Necessary Conclusions”
- 2. Osgood, Bôcher, and the Great Awakening in American Mathematics
- 3. The Dynamical Presence of George David Birkhoff
- 4. Analysis and Algebra Meet Topology: Marston Morse, Hassler Whitney, and Saunders Mac Lane
- 5. Analysis Most Complex: Lars Ahlfors Gives Function Theory a Geometric Spin
- 6. The War and Its Aftermath: Andrew Gleason, George Mackey, and an Assignation in Hilbert Space
- 7. The Europeans: Oscar Zariski, Richard Brauer, and Raoul Bott
- Epilogue: Numbers and Beyond
- Notes
- Index
A History in Sum
150 Years of Mathematics at Harvard (1825–1975)
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