Abstract

1: An overview of American mathematics: 1776--1876. 2: A new departmental prototype: J. J. Sylvester and the Johns Hopkins University. 3: Mathematics at Sylvester's Hopkins. 4: German mathematics and the early mathematical career of Felix Klein. 5: America's wanderlust generation. 6: Changes on the horizon. 7: The World's Columbian exposition of 1893 and the Chicago Mathematical Congress. 8: Surveying mathematical landscapes: The Evanston Colloquium Lectures. 9: Meeting the challenge: The University of Chicago and the American mathematical research community. 10: Epilogue: Beyond the threshold: The American mathematical research community, 1900--1933. Bibliography

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