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The Crossing of Heaven - Memoirs of a Mathematician (Hardcover, 2012): Karl Gustafson

The Crossing of Heaven - Memoirs of a Mathematician (Hardcover, 2012)

Karl Gustafson; Preface by Ioannis Antoniou

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Among the group of physics honors students huddled in 1957 on a Colorado mountain watching Sputnik bisect the heavens, one young scientist was destined, three short years later, to become a key player in America s own top-secret spy satellite program. One of our era s most prolific mathematicians, Karl Gustafson was given just two weeks to write the first US spy satellite s software. The project would fundamentally alter America s Cold War strategy, and this autobiographical account of a remarkable academic life spent in the top flight tells this fascinating inside story for the first time.

Gustafson takes you from his early pioneering work in computing, through fascinating encounters with Nobel laureates and Fields medalists, to his current observations on mathematics, science and life. He tells of brushes with death, being struck by lightning, and the beautiful women who have been a part of his journey."

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Imprint: Springer-Verlag
Country of origin: Germany
Release date: 2012
First published: 2012
Authors: Karl Gustafson
Preface by: Ioannis Antoniou
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Edition: 2012
ISBN-13: 978-3-642-22557-4
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Science, technology & engineering
Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > General
Books > Computing & IT > Computer programming > General
Books > Biography > Science, technology & engineering
LSN: 3-642-22557-8
Barcode: 9783642225574

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