Numbers (eBook)

Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus, Hans Hermes, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Max Koecher, Klaus Mainzer, Jurgen Neukirch, Alexander Prestel, Reinhold Remmert (Autoren)

John H. Ewing (Herausgeber)

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2012
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-1-4612-1005-4 (ISBN)

Infos

A book about numbers sounds rather dull. This one is not. Instead it is a lively story about one thread of mathematics-the concept of "e;number"e;- told by eight authors and organized into a historical narrative that leads the reader from ancient Egypt to the late twentieth century. It is a story that begins with some of the simplest ideas of mathematics and ends with some of the most complex. It is a story that mathematicians, both amateur and professional, ought to know. Why write about numbers? Mathematicians have always found it diffi- cult to develop broad perspective about their subject. While we each view our specialty as having roots in the past, and sometimes having connec- tions to other specialties in the present, we seldom see the panorama of mathematical development over thousands of years. Numbers attempts to give that broad perspective, from hieroglyphs to K-theory, from Dedekind cuts to nonstandard analysis.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.12.2012
• Einführung: K. Lamotke
• Übersetzer: H.L.S. Orde
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Arithmetik / Zahlentheorie
• ISBN-10: 1-4612-1005-4 / 1461210054
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4612-1005-4 / 9781461210054