The History of Mathematics: An Introduction - Brossura

Burton, David

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0071106359 ISBN 13: 9780071106351

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2007

Riassunto

This text is designed for the junior/senior mathematics major who intends to teach mathematics in high school or college. It concentrates on the history of those topics typically covered in an undergraduate curriculum or in elementary schools or high schools. At least one year of calculus is a prerequisite for this course. This book contains enough material for a 2 semester course but it is flexible enough to be used in the more common 1 semester course.

Su questo libro

Contenuti:

Preface
1 Early Number Systems and Symbols
2 Mathematics in Early Civilizations
3 The Beginnings of Greek Mathematics
4 The Alexandrian School: Euclid
5 The Twilight of Greek Mathematics: Diophantus
6 The First Awakening: Fibonacci
7 The Renaissance of Mathematics: Cardan and Tartaglia
8 The Mechanical World: Descartes and Newton
8.1 The Dawn of Modern Mathematics
9 The Development of Probability Theory: Pascal, Bernoulli, and Laplace
10 The Revival of Number Theory: Fermat, Euler, and Gauss
11 Nineteenth-Century Contributions: Bolyai and Lobachevsky
12 Transition to the Twenthieth Century: Canto and Kronecker
13 Extensions and Generalizations: Hardy, Hausdorff, and Noether
General Bibliography
Additional Reading
The Greek Alphabet
Solutions to Selected Problems
Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0071106359
• ISBN 13: 9780071106351
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 6
• Numero di pagine: 788