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The History of Mathematics

Author : Roger L. Cooke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118030249
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The History of Mathematics written by Roger L. Cooke and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition brings the fascinating and intriguing history of mathematics to life The Second Edition of this internationally acclaimed text has been thoroughly revised, updated, and reorganized to give readers a fresh perspective on the evolution of mathematics. Written by one of the world's leading experts on the history of mathematics, the book details the key historical developments in the field, providing an understanding and appreciation of how mathematics influences today's science, art, music, literature, and society. In the first edition, each chapter was devoted to a single culture. This Second Edition is organized by subject matter: a general survey of mathematics in many cultures, arithmetic, geometry, algebra, analysis, and mathematical inference. This new organization enables students to focus on one complete topic and, at the same time, compare how different cultures approached each topic. Many new photographs and diagrams have been added to this edition to enhance the presentation. The text is divided into seven parts: The World of Mathematics and the Mathematics of the World, including the origin and prehistory of mathematics, cultural surveys, and women mathematicians Numbers, including counting, calculation, ancient number theory, and numbers and number theory in modern mathematics Color Plates, illustrating the impact of mathematics on civilizations from Egypt to Japan to Mexico to modern Europe Space, including measurement, Euclidean geometry, post-Euclidean geometry, and modern geometrics Algebra, including problems leading to algebra, equations and methods, and modern algebra Analysis, including the calculus, real, and complex analysis Mathematical Inference, including probability and statistics, and logic and set theory As readers progress through the text, they learn about the evolution of each topic, how different cultures devised their own solutions, and how these solutions enabled the cultures to develop and progress. In addition, readers will meet some of the greatest mathematicians of the ages, who helped lay the groundwork for today's science and technology. The book's lively approach makes it appropriate for anyone interested in learning how the field of mathematics came to be what it is today. It can also serve as a textbook for undergraduate or graduate-level courses. An Instructor's Manual presenting detailed solutions to all the problems in the book is available upon request from the Wiley editorial department.

A Concise History of Mathematics

Author : Dirk Jan Struik
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486602554
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of Mathematics written by Dirk Jan Struik and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1967 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compact, well-written history covers major mathematical ideas and techniques from the ancient Near East to 20th-century computer theory, surveying the works of Archimedes, Pascal, Gauss, Hilbert, and many others. "The author's ability as a first-class historian as well as an able mathematician has enabled him to produce a work which is unquestionably one of the best." — Nature.

The Development of Mathematics Throughout the Centuries

Author : Brian Evans
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118853970
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book The Development of Mathematics Throughout the Centuries written by Brian Evans and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the book, readers take a journey throughout time and observe how people around the world have understood these patterns of quantity, structure, and dimension around them. The Development of Mathematics Throughout the Centuries: A Brief History in a Cultural Contex provides a brief overview of the history of mathematics in a very straightforward and understandable manner and also addresses major findings that influenced the development of mathematics as a coherent discipline. This book: Highlights the contributions made by various world cultures including African, Egyptian, Babylonian, Chinese, Indian, Islamic, and pre-Columbian American mathematics Features an approach that is not too rigorous and is ideal for a one-semester course of the history of mathematics. Includes a Resources and Recommended Reading section for further exploration and has been extensively classroom-tested

A History of Mathematics

Author : Carl B. Boyer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470525487
Total Pages : 695 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book A History of Mathematics written by Carl B. Boyer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The updated new edition of the classic and comprehensive guide to the history of mathematics For more than forty years, A History of Mathematics has been the reference of choice for those looking to learn about the fascinating history of humankind’s relationship with numbers, shapes, and patterns. This revised edition features up-to-date coverage of topics such as Fermat’s Last Theorem and the Poincaré Conjecture, in addition to recent advances in areas such as finite group theory and computer-aided proofs. Distills thousands of years of mathematics into a single, approachable volume Covers mathematical discoveries, concepts, and thinkers, from Ancient Egypt to the present Includes up-to-date references and an extensive chronological table of mathematical and general historical developments. Whether you're interested in the age of Plato and Aristotle or Poincaré and Hilbert, whether you want to know more about the Pythagorean theorem or the golden mean, A History of Mathematics is an essential reference that will help you explore the incredible history of mathematics and the men and women who created it.

A Brief History of Mathematical Thought

Author : Luke Heaton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190621761
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of Mathematical Thought written by Luke Heaton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling and readable book that situates mathematics in human experience and history.

A Brief History of Numbers

Author : Leo Corry
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191007072
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of Numbers written by Leo Corry and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world around us is saturated with numbers. They are a fundamental pillar of our modern society, and accepted and used with hardly a second thought. But how did this state of affairs come to be? In this book, Leo Corry tells the story behind the idea of number from the early days of the Pythagoreans, up until the turn of the twentieth century. He presents an overview of how numbers were handled and conceived in classical Greek mathematics, in the mathematics of Islam, in European mathematics of the middle ages and the Renaissance, during the scientific revolution, all the way through to the mathematics of the 18th to the early 20th century. Focusing on both foundational debates and practical use numbers, and showing how the story of numbers is intimately linked to that of the idea of equation, this book provides a valuable insight to numbers for undergraduate students, teachers, engineers, professional mathematicians, and anyone with an interest in the history of mathematics.

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

Author : Walter William Rouse Ball
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Short Account of the History of Mathematics written by Walter William Rouse Ball and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mathematics in Historical Context

Author : Jeff Suzuki
Publisher : MAA
ISBN 13 : 9780883855706
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (557 download)

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Download or read book Mathematics in Historical Context written by Jeff Suzuki and published by MAA. This book was released on 2009-08-27 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the interaction between mathematics, mathematicians and society. What would Newton see if he looked out his window?

Wonders Beyond Numbers

Author : Johnny Ball
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472939972
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Wonders Beyond Numbers written by Johnny Ball and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By introducing us to the major characters and leading us through many historical twists and turns, Johnny slowly unravels the tale of how humanity built up a knowledge and understanding of shapes, numbers and patterns from ancient times, a story that leads directly to the technological wonderland we live in today. As Galileo said, 'Everything in the universe is written in the language of mathematics', and Wonders Beyond Numbers is your guide to this language. (4ème de couverture)

Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development

Author : Joseph W. Dauben
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783764361679
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development written by Joseph W. Dauben and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-09-23 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an historiographic monograph, this book offers a detailed survey of the professional evolution and significance of an entire discipline devoted to the history of science. It provides both an intellectual and a social history of the development of the subject from the first such effort written by the ancient Greek author Eudemus in the Fourth Century BC, to the founding of the international journal, Historia Mathematica, by Kenneth O. May in the early 1970s.

Elements of the History of Mathematics

Author : N. Bourbaki
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540647676
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Elements of the History of Mathematics written by N. Bourbaki and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998-11-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each volume of Nicolas Bourbakis well-known work, The Elements of Mathematics, contains a section or chapter devoted to the history of the subject. This book collects together those historical segments with an emphasis on the emergence, development, and interaction of the leading ideas of the mathematical theories presented in the Elements. In particular, the book provides a highly readable account of the evolution of algebra, geometry, infinitesimal calculus, and of the concepts of number and structure, from the Babylonian era through to the 20th century.

A History of Mathematics

Author : Florian Cajori
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book A History of Mathematics written by Florian Cajori and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The History of Mathematics

Author : Nicholas Faulkner
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica
ISBN 13 : 1538300419
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book The History of Mathematics written by Nicholas Faulkner and published by Encyclopaedia Britannica. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intriguing volume introduces readers to the origins of the mathematical principles they study every day. It covers a wide range of disciplines outlined in curriculum standards and serves as an illuminating companion to their current studies. Readers will learn about the brilliant minds behind some of the breakthroughs in mathematics. They will also enjoy the origin stories of the different disciplines in the field we're so familiar with today. The study of math should go beyond numbers, and this book certainly accomplishes that by giving readers insight into how mathematics came to be.

Learning Activities from the History of Mathematics

Author : Frank J. Swetz
Publisher : Walch Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780825122644
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (226 download)

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Download or read book Learning Activities from the History of Mathematics written by Frank J. Swetz and published by Walch Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographies of 23 important mathematicians span many centuries and cultures. Historical Learning Tasks provide 21 in-depth treatments of a variety of historical problems.

The History of Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Jacqueline Stedall
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191633968
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The History of Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction written by Jacqueline Stedall and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematics is a fundamental human activity that can be practised and understood in a multitude of ways; indeed, mathematical ideas themselves are far from being fixed, but are adapted and changed by their passage across periods and cultures. In this Very Short Introduction, Jacqueline Stedall explores the rich historical and cultural diversity of mathematical endeavour from the distant past to the present day. Arranged thematically, to exemplify the varied contexts in which people have learned, used, and handed on mathematics, she also includes illustrative case studies drawn from a range of times and places, including early imperial China, the medieval Islamic world, and nineteenth-century Britain. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

The Math Book

Author : Clifford A. Pickover
Publisher : Union Square + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1402797494
Total Pages : 937 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Math Book written by Clifford A. Pickover and published by Union Square + ORM. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Neumann Prize–winning, illustrated exploration of mathematics—from its timeless mysteries to its history of mind-boggling discoveries. Beginning millions of years ago with ancient “ant odometers” and moving through time to our modern-day quest for new dimensions, The Math Book covers 250 milestones in mathematical history. Among the numerous delights readers will learn about as they dip into this inviting anthology: cicada-generated prime numbers, magic squares from centuries ago, the discovery of pi and calculus, and the butterfly effect. Each topic is lavishly illustrated with colorful art, along with formulas and concepts, fascinating facts about scientists’ lives, and real-world applications of the theorems.

A Concise History of Mathematics for Philosophers .

Author : John Stillwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108456235
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of Mathematics for Philosophers . written by John Stillwell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element aims to present an outline of mathematics and its history, with particular emphasis on events that shook up its philosophy. It ranges from the discovery of irrational numbers in ancient Greece to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century discoveries on the nature of infinity and proof. Recurring themes are intuition and logic, meaning and existence, and the discrete and the continuous. These themes have evolved under the influence of new mathematical discoveries and the story of their evolution is, to a large extent, the story of philosophy of mathematics.