The Emergence of the American Mathematical Research Community, 1876-1900 (Paperback, Reprint)

An overview of American mathematics: 1776-1876 A new departmental prototype: J. J. Sylvester and the Johns Hopkins University Mathematics at Sylvester's Hopkins German mathematics and the early mathematical career of Felix Klein America's wanderlust generation Changes on the horizon The World's Columbian exposition of 1893 and the Chicago Mathematical Congress Surveying mathematical landscapes: The Evanston Colloquium Lectures Meeting the challenge: The University of Chicago and the American mathematical research community Epilogue: Beyond the threshold: The American mathematical research community, 1900-1933 Bibliography.