Transformation of Mathematics Between World Wars: The Case of Combinatorics
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9781786349316_0012" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9781786349316_0012</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9781786349316_0012" target="_blank" >10.1142/9781786349316_0012</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Transformation of Mathematics Between World Wars: The Case of Combinatorics
Original language description
The chapter provides an overview of the major discoveries in combinatorics between the world wars. At that time, combinatorics was already a well-established mathematical discipline, with new results being published in respected journals including the Acta Mathematica, American Journal of Mathematics, or Annals of Mathematics. The motivation for studying combinatorial problems frequently came from other disciplines such as set theory, group theory, linear algebra, logic or number theory. Recreational mathematics was an important source of inspiration for research in graph theory, and this fact contributed to the bad reputation of graph theory as a science of trivial problems. However, the publication of the first textbook of graph theory in 1936, which presented it as a completely rigorous discipline with applications in linear algebra and set theory, helped to change this attitude. In the meanwhile, some important results that are now classified as belonging to graph theory were formulated in the language of topological structures. Finally, one should not forget that numerous developments in combinatorics grew out of purely practical problems, such as the design of experiments, construction of electricity networks, or the enumeration of chemical compounds.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10101 - Pure mathematics
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-00449S" target="_blank" >GA18-00449S: The impact of WWI on the formation and transformation of the scientific life of the mathematical community</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
The Development of Mathematics Between the World Wars
ISBN
978-1-78634-930-9
Number of pages of the result
38
Pages from-to
549-586
Number of pages of the book
624
Publisher name
World Scientific
Place of publication
London
UT code for WoS chapter
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