Algebraic Theory of Spinors and Clifford Algebras Collected Works of Claude Chevalley |
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Editor:
| Cartier, Pierre Chevalley, Catherine |
Author:
| Chevalley, Claude Vojta, Thomas |
Series title: | Collected Works of Claude Chevalley Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-3-540-57063-9 |
Publication Date: | Dec 1996 |
Publisher: | Springer
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $99.00 |
Book Description:
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In 1982, Claude Chevalley expressed three specific wishes with respect to the publication of his Works. First, he stated very clearly that such a publication should include his non#65533; technical papers. His reasons for that were two-fold. One reason was his life#65533; long commitment to epistemology and to politics, which made him strongly opposed to the view otherwise currently held that mathematics involves only half of a man. As he wrote to G. C. Rota on November 29th, 1982: "An...
More DescriptionIn 1982, Claude Chevalley expressed three specific wishes with respect to the publication of his Works. First, he stated very clearly that such a publication should include his non#65533; technical papers. His reasons for that were two-fold. One reason was his life#65533; long commitment to epistemology and to politics, which made him strongly opposed to the view otherwise currently held that mathematics involves only half of a man. As he wrote to G. C. Rota on November 29th, 1982: "An important number of papers published by me are not of a mathematical nature. Some have epistemological features which might explain their presence in an edition of collected papers of a mathematician, but quite a number of them are concerned with theoretical politics ( . . . ) they reflect an aspect of myself the omission of which would, I think, give a wrong idea of my lines of thinking". On the other hand, Chevalley thought that the Collected Works of a mathematician ought to be read not only by other mathematicians, but also by historians of science.