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Mina Spiegel Rees (1902-1997) was an American mathematician who had a significant impact on mathematical research and eduction in the United States. She received a PhD in mathematics at the University of Chicago, writing under the direction of L.E. Dickson. She was the head of the Mathematical Sciences Division of the Office of Naval Research during World War II and was the Dean of Graduate Studies at CUNY after the war. This book covers in depth Rees' many contributions to the US mathematical scene.

An Early History of Recursive Functions and Computability traces the development of recursive functions from their origins in the late nineteenth century, when recursion was first used as a method of defining simple arithmetic functions, up to the mid-1930's, when the class of general recursive functions was introduced by Godel, formalized by Kleene and used by Church in his thesis. The book explains how the proposal given in Church's 1936 paper, now known as Church's thesis, first arose and concludes with the consideration of another class of functions, the Turing computable functions, that...

The curious property that John Farey observed in one of Henry Goodwyn's tables has enduring pratical and theoretic interest. This book traces the curious property, the mediant, from its initial sighting by Nicolas Chuquet and Charles Haros to its connection to the Riemann hypothesis by Jerome Franel.

The history of the graphic computation technique called nomography from early applications until 1982 with an emphasis on the mathematical theory underpinning nomography and the mathematicians that developed this theory.