The History of Mathematics: An Introduction (reprint ISBN)
5th Edition
Published on 16. January 2003
Book
Hardback
978-0-07-288523-1 (ISBN)
Description
This text is designed for the junior/senior mathematics major who intends to teach mathematics in high school or college. It concentrates on the history of those topics typically covered in an undergraduate curriculum or in elementary schools or high schools. At least one year of calculus is a prerequisite for this course. This book contains enough material for a 2 semester course but it is flexible enough to be used in the more common 1 semester course.
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Edition
5th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 206 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
1395 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-288523-1 (9780072885231)
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Content
1 Early Number Systems and Symbols2 Mathematics in Early Civilizations3 The Beginnings of Greek Mathematics4 The Alexandrian School: Euclid5 The Twilight of Greek Mathematics: Diophantus6 The First Awakening: Fibonacci7 The Renaissance of Mathematics: Cardan and Tartaglia8 The Mechanical World: Descartes and Newton9 The Development of Probability Theory: Pascal, Bernoulli, and Laplace10 The Revival of Number Theory: Fermat, Euler, and Gauss11 Nineteenth-Century Contributions: Bolyai and Lobachevsky12 Transition to the Twenthieth Century: Canto and Kronecker13 Extensions and Generalizations: Hardy, Hausdorff, and Noether