Background
Dantzig, Tobias was born on February 19, 1884 in Shavli, Russia. Son of Samuel and Augusta (Demont) Dantzig.
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"This is beyond doubt the most interesting book on the evolution of mathematics which has ever fallen into my hands." -- Albert Einstein
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NY 1933 2nd, revised Macmillan. A critical survey written for the cultured non-mathematician. Octavo, 262pp., index, hardcover. Owner signed. Good in Good DJ, a bit worn.
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"Beyond doubt the most interesting book on the evolution of mathematics which has ever fallen into my hands."—Albert Einstein Number is an eloquent, accessible tour de force that reveals how the concept of number evolved from prehistoric times through the twentieth century. Tobias Dantzig shows that the development of math—from the invention of counting to the discovery of infinity—is a profoundly human story that progressed by “trying and erring, by groping and stumbling.” He shows how commerce, war, and religion led to advances in math, and he recounts the stories of individuals whose breakthroughs expanded the concept of number and created the mathematics that we know today.
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Dantzig, Tobias was born on February 19, 1884 in Shavli, Russia. Son of Samuel and Augusta (Demont) Dantzig.
Born in present-day Latvia (then Imperial Russia), Dantzig studied mathematics with Henri Poincaré in Paris.
He worked for a time as a lumberjack, road worker, and house painter in Oregon, until returning to academia at the encouragement of Reed College mathematician Frank Griffin. Dantzig received his Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics from Indiana University in 1917, while working as a professor there. He later taught at Johns Hopkins, Columbia University, and the University of Maryland.
Dantzig died in Los Angeles in 1956.
He was the father of George Dantzig, a key figure in the development of linear programming. "The harmony of the universe knows only one musical form—the legato.
While the symphony of number knows only its opposite—the staccato. All attempts to reconcile this discrepancy are based on the hope that an accelerated staccato may appear to our senses as a legato.".
("This is beyond doubt the most interesting book on the ev...)
("Beyond doubt the most interesting book on the evolution ...)
(NY 1933 2nd, revised Macmillan. A critical survey written...)
Member American Mathematics Society.
Married Anna Ourison, 1908. Children: George Bernard, Henry Poincare.