Download or read book Prospects in Mathematics written by Friedrich Hirzebruch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five papers by distinguished American and European mathematicians describe some current trends in mathematics in the perspective of the recent past and in terms of expectations for the future. Among the subjects discussed are algebraic groups, quadratic forms, topological aspects of global analysis, variants of the index theorem, and partial differential equations.