So far, so good: My life up to now
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: So far, so good: My life up to now
zbMATH Open document ID: 0706.01012
DOI: 10.1007/BF03024020
author: Edwin Hewitt
published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer
publication date: 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: This is a delightful essay which combines well-told stories of the author's education and academic career with useful information on the persons with whom he collaborated and the research that resulted from the collaboration. Of his student years at Harvard the author remarks that `the faculty was awe-inspiring': it included G. D. Birkhoff, E. V. Huntington, J. L. Walsh S. MacLane, Garrett Birkhoff and M. H. Stone. He says `Stone has been a decisive influence on my life for over half a century'. After war-time work on Operations Research in the Air Force, the author was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship at Princeton (where `there was a galaxy of eminences'). In 1948 he took up a post at the University of Washington in Seattle where he stayed for the rest of his career - but with fruitful years away at such places as Austin Texas, Moscow and Erlangen. Altogether this is a model of interesting though concise autobiography.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A70
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A60
zbMATH DE Number: 4158579
zbMATH Keywords: G. D. Birkhoff
zbMATH Keywords: E. V. Huntington
zbMATH Keywords: J. L. Walsh
zbMATH Keywords: S. MacLane
zbMATH Keywords: Garrett Birkhoff
zbMATH Keywords: M. H. Stone
reviewed by: Gordon Smith
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4158579