The history of mathematics : an introduction

著者

• Burton, David M.

書誌事項

The history of mathematics : an introduction

David M. Burton

WCB/McGraw-Hill, c1999

4th ed

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 673-674) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

• 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.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA61139212
• ISBN:
  • 0070094683
• LCCN: 98025974
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Boston
• ページ数/冊数: x, 710 p.
• 大きさ: 25 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : QA21
  • DC21 : 510/.9
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Mathematics -- History