Acknowledgments
We are grateful to all the individuals named below for so generously taking part in the making of this book.
All but four of the interviews and the one profile were done by Donald J. Albers and/or Gerald L. Alexanderson. Alice Beckenbach contributed a memoir. Her sons Alan and Tom Tucker were instrumental in seeing the memoir to publication. Claudia Henrion did the interview of Fern Hunt, which was originally published in Women in Mathematics: The Addition of Difference (Indiana University Press, 1997). Deanna Haunsperger did the interviews of Joe Gallian and Donald G. Saari, and James Tattersall and Shawnee McMurran did the interview of Dame Mary Cartwright.
Some of the interviews were first published in the College Mathematics Journal, a publication of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). Thanks to the MAA for permission to reprint the following interviews: Ahlfors (March 1998), Apostol (Sept. 1997), Bankoff (March 1992), Cartwright (Sept. 2003), Gallian (May 2000), Guy (March 1993), Saari (March 2005), and Taylor (Sept. 1996).
Several people provided valuable assistance in making possible the publication of the Selberg interview: Betty Compton Selberg, Ingrid Selberg, Lars Selberg, Brian Conrey, Dennis Hejhal, and Peter Sarnak.
Thanks to Fernando Gouvea and Richard A. Scott for their work on the glossary. Leonard Klosinski, Mary Jackson, Geri Albers, and Jean Pedersen provided general assistance as the many months of manuscript preparation went by.
We are also grateful to the following individuals and organizations for permission to reproduce copyrighted photos and figures, referenced below by figure number. Abbreviations used are American Mathematical Society (AMS), Mathematical Association of America (MAA), Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO), Donald J. Albers Collection (DJA), and Gerald L. Alexanderson Collection (GLA).
Figures 1.1–1.13, except 1.2, 1.3, and 1.7: Caroline Ahlfors Mouris; 1.2: mikkeli.fi; 1.3: GLA; 1.7: DJA; 2.1–2.14, except 2.7 and 2.8: Tom Apostol; 2.7: MFO; 2.8: GLA; 3.1–3.9, except 3.2 and 3.7: Charles Bacon; 3.2 and 3.7: GLA; 4.1–4.15, except 4.5: Tom Banchoff; 4.5: Stephen Simon; 5.1–5.12: Janis Bankoff; 6.1 and 6.2: GLA; 6.3 and 6.4: DJA; 6.5: MAA; 6.6: DJA; 6.7: GLA; 6.8: DJA; 6.9: AMS; 6.10: GLA; 6.11: AMS; 6.12: MAA; 6.13: GLA; 6.14: DJA; 6.15: Institute for Advanced Study Archives; 6.16 and 6.17: DJA; 7.1–7.9: Arthur Benjamin; 8.1 and 8.2: Girton College Library and Archive; 8.3: GLA; 8.4 and 8.5: Harold P. Boas; 8.6: South Wales Evening Post; 8.7: GLA; 8.8: Cambridge University Press; 8.9: DJA; 8.10: Girton College Library and Archive; 9.1–9.9: Joe Gallian; 10.1–10.19: Richard K. Guy; 11.1–11.6: Fern Hunt; 12.1–12.16: Dusa McDuff; 13.1–13.9: Donald G. Saari; 14.1: Betty Compton Selberg; 14.2: C. J. Mozzochi; 14.3: Lars Selberg; 14.4: Betty Compton Selberg; 14.5: Nils Baas; 14.6: C. J. Mozzochi; 14.7: Yangbo Ye; 14.8: Nils Baas; 14.9: Ingrid Selberg; 14.10: Yangbo Ye; 15.1–15.9: Jean Taylor; 16.1–16.11, except 16.4 and 16.10: Philippe Tondeur; 16.4 and 16.10: MFO.
Working with the staff of Princeton University Press has been a pleasure. Vickie Kearn, the mathematics editor, has been wonderfully supportive throughout the entire publication process, from book idea to a finished volume. Her able assistant Stefani Wexler gave valuable help throughout the production phase, as did Elissa Schiff, our copyeditor. The published book demonstrates the considerable production talents of Natalie Baan. The design ability of Lorraine Doneker shines through the entire volume.
To all of you who worked on this book, we again say thank you.