History of Mathematics

An Introduction

David M. Burton (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

752 Seiten

2002 | 4th Revised edition
McGraw Hill Higher Education (Verlag)
978-0-07-009468-0 (ISBN)

Infos

A full account of how mathematics has developed over the past 5000 years, this text is basically chronological. It begins with the origin of mathematics in the great civilizations of antiquity and progresses through the first few decades of the 20th century.

Inhalt

Early number systems and symbols; mathematics in early civilizations; the beginnings of Greek mathematics; the Alexandrian school - Euclid; the twilight of Greek mathematics - Diophantus; the first awakening - Fibonacci; the renaissance of mathematics - Cardan and Tartaglia; the mechanical world - Descartes and Newton; the development of probability theory - Pascal, Bernoulli and Laplace; the revival of number theory - Fermat, Euler and Gauss; 19th-century contributions - Bolyai and Lobachevesky; transition to the 20th century - Cantor and Kronecker; extensions and generalizations - Hardy, Hausdorff and Noether; the Greek alphabet; solutions to selected problems.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.2.2002
• Zusatzinfo: bibliography, index
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Gewicht: 1300 g
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 0-07-009468-3 / 0070094683
• ISBN-13: 978-0-07-009468-0 / 9780070094680
• Zustand: Neuware