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History of Mathematics

Carl B. Boyer (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

762 Seiten

1989 | 2nd Revised edition
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
978-0-471-09763-1 (ISBN)

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A chronological history of mathematics from its earliest origins to the present day, this edition has been revised and updated to include new information on the 19th century, further references and essay questions, and material on Hilbert, Poincare and other 20th century mathematicians.

A chronological history of mathematics, from its earliest origins to the present, this second edition features completely revised chapters on the 19th century, plus much more material on Hilbert, Poincare, and 20th - century mathematics. The text contains a wealth of references (all in English), essay questions, and many student exercises. The previous edition of this book was published in 1968.

Origins. Egypt. Mesopotamia. Ionia and the Pythagoreans. The Heroic Age. The Age of Plato and Aristotle. Euclid of Alexandria. Archimedes of Syracuse. Apollonius of Perga. Greek Trigonometry and Mensuration. Revival and Decline of Greek Mathematics. China and India. The Arabic Hegemony. Europe in the Middle Ages. The Renaissance. Prelude to Modern Mathematics. The Time of Fermat and Descartes. A Transitional Period. Newton and Leibniz. The Bernoulli Era. The Age of Euler. Mathematicians of the French Revolution. The Time of Gauss and Cauchy. Geometry. Analysis. Algebra. Poincar? and Hilbert. Aspects of the Twentieth Century. References. General Bibliography. Appendix. Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.9.1989
Überarbeitung	Uta C. Merzbach
Zusatzinfo	tables, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	1219 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
ISBN-10	0-471-09763-2 / 0471097632
ISBN-13	978-0-471-09763-1 / 9780471097631
Zustand	Neuware