History of Mathematics
An Introduction
David M. Burton(Author)
McGraw Hill Higher Education (Publisher)
4th Edition
Published on 25. February 2002
Book
Hardback
752 pages
978-0-07-009468-0 (ISBN)
Description
A full account of how mathematics has developed over the past 5000 years, this text is basically chronological. It begins with the origin of mathematics in the great civilizations of antiquity and progresses through the first few decades of the 20th century.
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Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
1300 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-009468-0 (9780070094680)
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Book
01/1997
3rd Edition
McGraw Hill Higher Education
€122.55
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Content
Early number systems and symbols; mathematics in early civilizations; the beginnings of Greek mathematics; the Alexandrian school - Euclid; the twilight of Greek mathematics - Diophantus; the first awakening - Fibonacci; the renaissance of mathematics - Cardan and Tartaglia; the mechanical world - Descartes and Newton; the development of probability theory - Pascal, Bernoulli and Laplace; the revival of number theory - Fermat, Euler and Gauss; 19th-century contributions - Bolyai and Lobachevesky; transition to the 20th century - Cantor and Kronecker; extensions and generalizations - Hardy, Hausdorff and Noether; the Greek alphabet; solutions to selected problems.