Makers of Mathematics - Brossura

Hollingdale, S. H.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0486450074 ISBN 13: 9780486450070

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2006

Riassunto

Fascinating and highly readable, this book recounts the history of mathematics as revealed in the lives and writings of the most distinguished practitioners of the art: Archimedes, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, Leibniz, Euler, Gauss, Hamilton, Einstein, and many more. Author Stuart Hollingdale introduces and explains the roles of these gifted and often colorful figures in the development of mathematics as well as the ways in which their work relates to mathematics as a whole.
Although the emphasis in this absorbing survey is primarily biographical, Hollingdale also discusses major historical themes and explains new ideas and techniques. No specialized mathematical knowledge on the part of the reader is assumed. Superbly informative, this volume offers an accessible, interesting guide to one of the pillars of modern science, and to a supremely important aspect of human culture through the ages.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

The late Stuart Hollingdale was a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham and Director of the institution's computer lab. After his 1974 retirement, he was active in the United Kingdom's innovative Open University program.

Contenuti:

1. The beginnings 2. Early Greek mathematics 3. Euclid and Apollonius 4. Archimedes and the later Hellenistic period 5. The long interlude 6. The Renaissance 7. Descartes, Fermat and Pascal 8. Newton 9. Newton's Principia 10. Newton's circle 11. Leibniz 12. Euler 13. D'Alembert and his contemporaries 14. Gauss 15. Hamilton and Boole 16. Dedekind and Cantor 17. Einstein Appendices References Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0486450074
• ISBN 13: 9780486450070
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 439