Includes bibliographical references (pages [423]-428).
Contents
Preface -- Prologue -- From Euler to Legendre -- From Fourier to Cauchy -- From Abel to Grassmann -- From Kummer to Cayley -- From Hermite to Sophus Lie -- From Cantor to Hilbert -- From E.H. Moore to Takagi -- From Hardy to Lefschetz -- From Birkhoff to Alexander -- From Banach to von Neumann -- Epilogue -- Further reading -- Collections -- Acknowledgements.