The History of Mathematics
An Introduction
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1997
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3rd Revised edition
McGraw Hill Higher Education (Verlag)
978-0-07-009465-9 (ISBN)
McGraw Hill Higher Education (Verlag)
978-0-07-009465-9 (ISBN)
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This text concentrates on the history of those topics typically covered in an undergraduate curriculum or in secondary schools. It presents a full account of how mathematics has developed over the last 5000 years.
This text concentrates on the history of those topics typically covered in an undergraduate curriculum or in secondary schools. It presents a full account of how mathematics has developed over the last 5000 years, and assorted problems of varying degrees of difficulty have been interspersed throughout the text.
This text concentrates on the history of those topics typically covered in an undergraduate curriculum or in secondary schools. It presents a full account of how mathematics has developed over the last 5000 years, and assorted problems of varying degrees of difficulty have been interspersed throughout the text.
Early number systems and symbols; mathematics in early civilizations; the beginnings of Greek mathemaics; the first Alexandrian school - Euclid; the second Alexandrian school - Diophantus; the first awakening - Fibonacci; the cubic controversy - Cardan and Tartaglia; the mechanical world - Descartes and Newton; the development of probability theory - Pascal, Bernoulli and Laplace; the renaissance of number theory - Fermat, Eutler and Gauss; non-euclidean geometry - Bolyai and Lobachevesky; the theory of sets - Georg Cantor; extensions and generalizations - Hardy, Hausdorff and Noether; the Greek alphabet; solutions to selected problems.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.1.1997 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | International Series in Pure & Applied Mathematics |
| Zusatzinfo | bibliography, further reading |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 1270 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik | |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-07-009465-9 / 0070094659 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-07-009465-9 / 9780070094659 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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