LECTURES ON LOST MATHEMATICS - UW Libraries
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Branko Grünbaum Introductory notes for the digital version of my
LECTURES ON LOST MATHEMATICS presented at the University of Washington during the Fall 1975 quarter
and of the additional comments prepared in collaboration with G. C. Shephard for a Special Session on Rigidity, organized at the 760th meeting of the American Mathematical Society, held in Syracuse, NY, on October 28, 1978. The original Notes have been dittoed (purple) and distributed in a considerable quantity to the participants in the one hour a week lectures, and to a number of other mathematicians. The supply of the Notes was quickly exhausted. Advances in the technology that have become available in the following years made it possible to reprint the Notes in mimeographed (black) form. The Syracuse Special Session provided an opportunity to make a rather large number of copies available, updated with material that appeared or came to our attention in the intervening years. These copies were also distributed quickly, and I soon have been unable to respond to frequent requests for copies of the notes. This was the situation when in late 2005 Professor Marjorie Senechal asked whether I agree that she have the notes scanned and distributed to participants of a conference entitled "Structural Topology Revisited", to be held in La Vacquerie (France) in July 2006. I agreed, and the following is the result of turning the Notes into a digital document. Needless to stress, I am greatly obliged to Professor Senechal for this step. The University of Washington has established a permanent digital depository for lecture notes and similar material, and I am happy to provide a final home for the "Lectures on Lost Mathematics". The reader should be aware that the notes (and the additional comments) where written more than thirty years ago, and that many developments have occurred during that time. I am happy that the material of these notes helped influence some of these developments.
Seattle, April 2010
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