A Brief History of Mathematics
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-26840-3 (ISBN)
Written for a general audience, this book will be of interest to anyone who's studied mathematics in university or even high school, while also benefiting researchers in mathematics and the humanities.
Tianxin Cai was born in 1963 in Taizhou, Zhejiang province, and completed a doctorate in science in 1987. He is a Professor of Mathematics at Zhejiang University as well as an author, poet, and lecturer. He has published over 80 academic papers in number theory and 22 books on popular mathematics and poetry (translated into 16 languages), as well as dozens of articles in magazines and newspapers that have been translated into a number of languages. His video open class, Mathematical Legends, has been viewed more than three million times.
1. The Middle East, or the Beginning.- 2. The Sages of Ancient Greece.- 3. The Chinese Middle Ages.- 4. India and Persia.- 5. From the Renaissance to the Birth of Calculus.- 6. The Age of Analysis and the French Revolution.- 7. Modern Mathematics, Modern Art.- 8. Abstraction: Mathematics Since the Twentieth Century.
Erscheinungsdatum | 27.07.2023 |
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Zusatzinfo | XV, 344 p. 32 illus., 19 illus. in color. |
Verlagsort | Cham |
Sprache | englisch |
Original-Titel | Brief History of Mathematics |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 703 g |
Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik | |
Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik | |
Schlagworte | analytic geometry • Bernoulli • Chinese mathematics • Egyptian mathematics • Euclid's elements • Indian mathematics • Mathematics and literature • mathematics and philosophy • mathematics and poetry • Omar Khayyam • Pythagoras • the Renaissance |
ISBN-10 | 3-031-26840-7 / 3031268407 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-031-26840-3 / 9783031268403 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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