Indiscrete Thoughts
Gian - Carlo Rota
Contents
Foreword by Reuben Hersh
Foreword by Robert Sokolowski
Introduction by Gian-Carlo Rota
Part I. Persons and Places
- Fine Hall in its Golden Age
Remembrances of Princeton in the Early Fifties
Alonzo Church
William Feller
Emil Artin
Solomon Lefschetz
- Light Shadows
Yale in the Early Fifties
Jack Schwartz
From Princeton to Yale
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Yale in the Fifties
Mathematics at Yale
Abstraction in Mathematics
Linear Operators: The Past
Linear Operators: The Present
Linear Operators: The Future
Working with Jack Schwartz
- Combinatorics, Representation Theory and Invariant Theory
The Story of a Manage a Trois
Cambridge 02138 in the Early Fifties
Alfred Young
Problem Solvers and Theorizers
Hermann Grassmann and Exterior Algebra
Definition and Description in Mathematics
Bottom Lines
- The Barrier of Meaning
- Stan Ulam
- The Lost Café
Part II. Philosophy: A Minority View
- The Pernicious Influence of Mathematics Upon Philosophy
- Philosophy and Computer Science
- The Phenomenology of Mathematical Truth
- The Phenomenology of Mathematical Beauty
- The Phenomenology of Mathematical Proof
- Syntax, Semantics, and the Problem of the Identity of Mathematical Items
- The Barber of Seville or the Useless Precaution
- Kant and Husserl
- Fundierung as a Logical Concept
- The Primacy of Identity
- Three Senses of 'A is B" in Heidegger
Part III Readings and Comments
- Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught
- Ten Lessons for the Survival of a Mathematics Department
- A Mathematician's Gossip
- Book Reviews
Paul Halmos: a Life
The Leading Line of Schaum's Outlines
Professor Neanderthal's World
Uses and Misuses of Numbers
On Reading Collected Papers
Matroids
Short Book Reviews
End Notes
Epilogue by Fabrizio Palombi
Index
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