A history of mathematics
著者
書誌事項
A history of mathematics
Wiley, c1989
2nd ed. / revised by Uta C. Merzbach
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注記
Bibliography: p. 709-723
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
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.
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