History of mathematics : highways and byways
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History of mathematics : highways and byways
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Mathematical Association of America, c2010
- Other Title
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Une histoire des mathematiques : routes et dedales
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Translated from the French
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a novel, short, and eminently readable history of mathematics. Many histories provide a chronological history of the entire subject, which can sometimes make it difficult to follow the development of a particular branch over time. Dahan-Delmmedico and Pfeiffer succeed splendidly in tracing each branch from its beginnings forward. They also give an outstanding account of how the Arabs not only preserved Greek mathematics, but extended it in the 800 year period from 400-1200. The large number of informative illustrations support the text and contribute to what is a great read.
Table of Contents
- Translator's preface
- 1. Landscapes
- 2. A moment of rationality: Greece
- 3. The constitution of classical algebra
- 4. Figures, spaces, and geometries
- 5. Limits: from the unconceived to the concept
- 6. The concept of function and the development of analysis
- 7. At the crossroads of algebra, analysis, and geometry: complex numbers
- 8. New objects, new laws: the emergence of algebraic structures.
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