Karen Parshall, Departments of History & Mathematics, University of Virginia
Crossing the Pond: European Mathematicians in 1920s America
4:00 pm –
4:50 pm
Location:
Via Zoom
American mathematics was experiencing growing pains in the 1920s. It had looked to Europe at least since the 1890s when many Americans had gone abroad to pursue their advanced mathematical studies. It was anxious to assert itself on the international …
This event originated in Math Colloquia.