About the speaker Roger Cooke is Williams Professor of Mathematics at the University of Vermont. He received his Ph. D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1966 for a thesis in Fourier analysis written under the direction of Salomon Bochner. In 1981 he began to conduct research in the history of mathematics. He has conducted research in Stockholm and Moscow, and has given lectures in these cities, as well as in G ttingen and London. The present lecture is his third public lecture in Montr al.
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