"Higher mathematics" once pointed towards the involvement of infinity. This we label analysis. The ancient Greeks had helped it to a first high point when they mastered the infinite. The book traces the history of analysis along the risky route of serial procedures through antiquity. It took quite long for this type of mathematics to revive in our region. When and where it did, infinite series proved the driving force. Not until a good two millennia had gone by, would analysis head towards Greek rigor again. To follow all that trial, error and final accomplishment, is more than studying history: It provides touching, worthwhile access to advanced calculus. Moreover, some steps beyond convergence show infinite series to naturally fit a wider frame.
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Sprache
Verlagsort
Basel/Berlin/Boston
Deutschland
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Editions-Typ
Illustrationen
23
23 s/w Abbildungen
23 b/w ill.
Dateigröße
ISBN-13
978-3-11-039916-5 (9783110399165)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Hans-Heinrich Körle, Universität Marburg, Deutschland.
