A Source Book in Mathematics

David Eugene Smith

ISBN 10: 0486646904 / ISBN 13: 9780486646909

Editore: Dover, 1984

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: Este libro presenta, en traducción al inglés, los grandes descubrimientos en matemáticas desde el Renacimiento hasta finales del siglo XIX. El lector podrá acceder a los escritos de Newton, Leibniz, Pascal, Riemann, Bernoulli y otros, tal como el mundo los vio por primera vez. Incluye una selección concisa de 125 tratados y artículos diferentes, ofreciendo una historia vívida y de primera mano del crecimiento de las matemáticas. Los artículos se agrupan en cinco secciones: El campo del número, El campo del álgebra, El campo de la geometría, El campo de la probabilidad y El campo del cálculo, las funciones y los cuaterniones. Cada artículo está precedido por una introducción biográfica-histórica. EAN: 9780486646909 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Historia|Filosofía|Educación Título: A Source Book in Mathematics Autor: David Eugene Smith Editorial: Dover Idioma: en Páginas: 736 Formato: tapa blanda.

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• Titolo: A Source Book in Mathematics
• Editore: Dover
• Data di pubblicazione: 1984
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0486646904
• ISBN 13: 9780486646909
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Bueno

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This work presents, in English translation, the great discoveries in mathematics from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. You are able to read the writings of Newton, Leibniz, Pascal, Riemann, Bernoulli, and others, exactly as the world saw them for the first time. Succinct selections from 125 different treatises and articles, most of them unavailable elsewhere in English, offer a vivid, firsthand story of the growth of mathematics. The articles are grouped in five sections:
I. The Field of Number. Twenty-four articles trace developments from the first steps in printed arithmetic through selected number systems, to the early phases of modern number theory.
II. The Field of Algebra. Eighteen articles on algebra include writings by Fermat, John Wallis, Newton, Leibniz, Abel, Galois, etc.
III. The Field of Geometry. Thirty-six articles on geometry span 500 years. Here are the early writers such as Fermat, Desargues, Pascal, and Descartes; and some of the men who revived the study in the nineteenth century and developed non-Euclidian forms: Lobachevsky, Bolyai, Riemann, and others.
IV. The Field of Probability. Selections from Fermat, Pascal, De Moivre, Legendre, Chebyshev, and Laplace discuss crucial topics in the early history of this branch of modern mathematics.
V. The Field of Calculus, Functions, and Quaternions. The development of the calculus, function theory, and quaternions is covered from early sources of calculus to important advances relating to the commutative law in quaternions and Ausdehnungslehre. This section contains works of Bessel, Mobius, W. R. Hamilton, Leibniz, Berkeley, Cauchy, Fermat, and six other pioneering mathematicians.
Each article is preceded by a biographical-historical Introduction.

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SMITH, D. E. A SOURCE BOOK IN MATHEMATICS [1929, REPRINT]. MINEOLA, N.Y., 1984, xiii 701 p.,figuras. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.