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Fascinating mathematical people : interviews and

memoirs / Donald J. Albers and Gerald L. Alexanderson,

editors ; with a foreword by Philip J. Davis.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-691-14829-8 (hardcover : alk. paper)

1. Mathematicians—Biography.    2. Mathematicians—

Interviews.    I. Albers, Donald J., 1941–

II. Alexanderson, Gerald L.

QA28.F37 2011

510.92’2—dc22

2011010624

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