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An episodic history of mathematics
Title statement An episodic history of mathematics : mathematical culture through problem solving / Steven G. Krantz Personal name Krantz, Steven G. (Steven George), 1951- (author) Issue data [Washington] : Mathematical Association of America, c2010 Phys.des. xiii, 381 s. : il. ISBN 978-0-88385-766-3 (váz.) Edition MAA textbooks Internal Bibliographies/Indexes Note Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy a rejstřík Contents The ancient Greeks and the foundations of mathematics -- Zeno's paradox and the concept of limit -- The mystical mathematics of Hypatia -- The Islamic world and the development of algebra -- Cardano, Abel, Galois, and the solving of equations -- René Descartes and the idea of coordinates -- Pierre de Fermat and the invention of differential calculus -- The great Isaac Newton -- The complex numbers and the fundamental theorem of algebra -- Carl Friedrich Gauss: the prince of mathematics -- Sophie Germain and the attack on Fermat's last problem -- Cauchy and the foundations of analysis -- The prime numbers -- Dirichlet and how to count -- Bernhard Riemann and the geometry of surfaces -- Georg Cantor and the orders of infinity -- The number systems -- Henri Poincaré, child phenomenon -- Sonya Kovalevskaya and the mathematics of mechanics -- Emmy Noether and algebra -- Methods of proof -- Alan Turing and cryptography. Another responsib. Mathematical Association of America Subj. Headings matematici * matematika Form, Genre učebnice vysokých škol Conspect 51 - Matematika 37.016 - Učební osnovy. Vyučovací předměty. Učebnice UDC (075.8) Country Spojené státy americké Language angličtina Document kind Books 
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