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The History of Mathematics

An Introduction

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Buch | Hardcover
700 Seiten
1997 | 3rd Revised edition
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.

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
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