1996, ISBN: 0908569998

[EAN: 9780908569991], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: University of Otago Press, Dunedin, New Zealand], MATHEMATICS, NEW ZEALAND, AITKEN, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, FENTON, MEMOIR, Biography & Au… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780908569991], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: University of Otago Press, Dunedin, New Zealand], MATHEMATICS, NEW ZEALAND, AITKEN, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, FENTON, MEMOIR, Biography & Autobiography|General, Biography & Autobiography|Science & Technology, Mathematics|History & Philosophy, With a biographical introduction by P.C. Fenton, preface, endnotes and several photographs (blurb follows below). 123pp total. Book is VG, v. slight sunning to top edge, some sunning to spine, pages and covers bent downwards in the middle. Slight shelfwear to covers and edges, corners very slightly rubbed. "Alexander Craig Aitken was born in Dunedin in 1895. Educated at Otago Boys' School and the University of Otago, he was a mathematician whose contributions to algebra, numerical analysis and statistics brought him the glittering prizes of his profession: a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh at the age of thirty, and its highest award, the Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize; a Fellowship of the Royal Society of London in 1936; and in 1946 the chair of Pure Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, the scene of his academic career. This book publishes for the first time a memoir by Aitken which begins with his departure from Dunedin in 1923 and covers the first twenty years of his life in Scotland. A fine violinist, he continued to pursue his musical interests in Edinburgh and composed for his private pleasure. Aitken was an Otago champion athlete and in Scotland he took to his beloved Pentland hills as a marathon walker. Haunted by his memories of the First World War, he was beset by recurrent periods of melancholia and psychic experiences which unusually he documented in his diaries. P.C. Fenton provides a setting for Aitken's memoir in a biographical introduction, looking at his Dunedin years, including his childhood on the Otago Peninsula, and family background."<

1996, ISBN: 0908569998

[EAN: 9780908569991], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: University of Otago Press, Dunedin, New Zealand], MATHEMATICS, NEW ZEALAND, AITKEN, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, FENTON, MEMOIR, Biography & Au… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780908569991], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: University of Otago Press, Dunedin, New Zealand], MATHEMATICS, NEW ZEALAND, AITKEN, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, FENTON, MEMOIR, Biography & Autobiography|General, Biography & Autobiography|Science & Technology, With a biographical introduction by P.C. Fenton, preface, endnotes and several photographs (blurb follows below). 123pp total. Book is VG, v. slight sunning to top edge, some sunning to spine, pages and covers bent downwards in the middle. Slight shelfwear to covers and edges, corners very slightly rubbed. "Alexander Craig Aitken was born in Dunedin in 1895. Educated at Otago Boys' School and the University of Otago, he was a mathematician whose contributions to algebra, numerical analysis and statistics brought him the glittering prizes of his profession: a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh at the age of thirty, and its highest award, the Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize; a Fellowship of the Royal Society of London in 1936; and in 1946 the chair of Pure Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, the scene of his academic career. This book publishes for the first time a memoir by Aitken which begins with his departure from Dunedin in 1923 and covers the first twenty years of his life in Scotland. A fine violinist, he continued to pursue his musical interests in Edinburgh and composed for his private pleasure. Aitken was an Otago champion athlete and in Scotland he took to his beloved Pentland hills as a marathon walker. Haunted by his memories of the First World War, he was beset by recurrent periods of melancholia and psychic experiences which unusually he documented in his diaries. P.C. Fenton provides a setting for Aitken's memoir in a biographical introduction, looking at his Dunedin years, including his childhood on the Otago Peninsula, and family background."<