HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS Volume 1 A Century of Mathematics in America Parti Edited by Peter Duren with the assistance of Richard A. Askey Uta C. Merzbach American Mathematical Society • Providence, Rhode Island Contents Mathematical Progress in America 3 Thomas Scott Fiske The Beginnings of The American Mathematical Society 13 Reminiscences of Thomas Scott Fiske For the 100th Birthday of the American Mathematical Society 19 /. L. Synge J. J. Sylvester, Johns Hopkins and Partitions 21 George E. Andrews Thomas S. Fiske and Charles S. Peirce 41 Carolyn Eisele Luther Pfahler Eisenhart 56 Solomon Lefschetz Some Mathematical Reminiscences 79 D, V. Widder The Role of Logical Investigations in Mathematics Since 1930 85 Stephen C. Kleene Memories of Bygone Meetings 93 R. P. Boas Moscow 1935: Topology Moving Toward America 97 Hassler Whitney Oswald Veblen 118 Deane Montgomery Some Books of Auld Lang Syne ' 131 P. R. Halmos Refugee Mathematicians in the United States of America, 1933-1941: Reception and Reaction 175 Nathan Reingold Reminiscences of a Mathematical Immigrant in the U.S. 201 Solomon Lefschetz The Threadbare Thirties 209 Ivan Niven The European Mathematicians' Migration to America 231 Lipman Bers Abraham Adrian Albert 244 Irving Kaplansky A Half Century of Reviewing 265 D. H. Lehmer American Mathematicians in WWI 267 G. Baley Price American Mathematicians in War Service 269 The Mathematical Sciences and World War Service 275 Mina Rees Reminiscences of Bletchley Park, 1942-1945 291 Peter Hilton Mathematics and Mathematicians in WWII 303 J. Barkley Rosser A Brief History of the Computer 311 Herman H. Goldstine Concepts and Categories in Perspective 323 Saunders Mac Lane Mathematical Biography 367 Marshall Hall Jr. American Differential Geometry—Some Personal Notes 375 Shiing-Shen Chern The Mathematical Scene, 1940-1965 379 G. Baley Price Reminiscences of Forty Years as a Mathematician 405 W. S. Massey The Purge 413 Chandler Davis The Use of Mathematics 429 R. W. Hamming Algorithmic Themes 439 Donald E. Knuth The Classification of the Finite Simple Groups, A Personal Journey: The Early Years 447 Daniel Gorenstein Acknowledgments 477 VI.