Britannica Guide to Numbers and Measurement
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 2010
288 pages
978-1-61530-218-5 (ISBN)
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Communication and, indeed, our comprehension of the world in general are largely ordered by the number and measurement systems that have arisen over time. This book delves into the history of mathematical reasoning and the progression of numerical thought
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William L. Hosch
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Content
- BOOK COVER
- TITLE
- COPYRIGHT
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER 1: NUMBERS
- NUMERALS AND NUMERAL SYSTEMS
- NUMBER BASES
- NUMERAL SYSTEMS
- DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN NUMERALS AND NUMERAL SYSTEMS
- ARITHMETIC
- FUNDAMENTAL DEFINITIONS AND LAWS
- THEORY OF DIVISORS
- MODULAR ARITHMETIC
- LOGARITHMS
- NUMBER THEORY
- FROM PREHISTORY THROUGH CLASSICAL GREECE
- NUMBER THEORY IN THE EAST
- MODERN NUMBER THEORY
- NUMBER THEORY IN THE 20TH CENTURY
- UNSOLVED PROBLEMS
- SET THEORY
- INTRODUCTION TO NAIVE SET THEORY
- AXIOMATIC SET THEORY
- CHAPTER 2: GREAT ARITHMETICIANS AND NUMBER THEORISTS
- THE ANCIENT WORLD
- ARYABHATA I
- DIOPHANTUS OF ALEXANDRIA
- MUHAMMAD IBN.
- NICOMACHUS OF GERASA
- LEONARDO PISANO
- QIN JIUSHAO
- RENAISSANCE EUROPE
- HENRY BRIGGS
- JOOST BÜRGI
- PIERRE DE FERMAT
- CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
- CHRISTIAN GOLDBACH
- MARIN MERSENNE
- JOHN NAPIER
- THE MODERN ERA
- PAUL ISAAK BERNAYS
- GEORG CANTOR
- PAUL JOSEPH COHEN
- RICHARD DEDEKIND
- PETER GUSTAV LEJEUNE DIRICHLET
- GOTTLOB FREGE
- KURT GÖDEL
- BERTRAND RUSSELL
- ALAN MATHISON TURING
- IVAN MATVEYEVICH VINOGRADOV
- JOHN VON NEUMANN
- CHAPTER 3: NUMERICAL TERMS AND CONCEPTS
- ALGORITHM
- ARITHMETIC FUNCTION
- ASSOCIATIVE LAWS
- AXIOM OF CHOICE
- BINARY CODE
- BINARY NUMBER SYSTEM
- CANTOR'S THEOREM
- CHINESE REMAINDER THEOREM
- CHURCH'S THESIS
- COMMUTATIVE LAWS
- COMPLEX NUMBER
- CONTINUUM HYPOTHESIS
- DECIMAL NUMBER SYSTEM
- DECISION PROBLEM
- DEDEKIND CUT
- DIOPHANTINE EQUATION
- DIRICHLET'S THEOREM
- DISTRIBUTIVE LAW
- EQUIVALENCE RELATION
- EUCLIDEAN ALGORITHM
- EUCLID'S TWIN PRIME CONJECTURE
- FACTOR
- FACTORIAL
- FERMAT PRIME
- FERMAT'S LAST THEOREM
- FERMAT'S LITTLE THEOREM
- FIBONACCI NUMBERS
- FRACTION
- FUNDAMENTAL THEOREM OF ARITHMETIC
- GEOMETRIC SERIES
- GOLDBACH CONJECTURE
- HARMONIC SEQUENCE
- IMAGINARY NUMBER
- INCOMPLETENESS THEOREMS
- INEQUALITY
- INFINITE SERIES
- INFINITY
- INTEGER
- LAGRANGE'S FOUR-SQUARE THEOREM
- MERSENNE NUMBER
- NUMBER
- PERFECT NUMBER
- PRIME
- PRIME NUMBER THEOREM
- PSEUDOPRIME
- RATIONAL NUMBER
- REAL NUMBER
- RIEMANN ZETA FUNCTION
- ROOT
- RUSSELL'S PARADOX
- SET
- SQUARE ROOT
- TRANSFINITE NUMBER
- TRANSITIVE LAW
- TURING MACHINE
- VINOGRADOV'S THEOREM
- WARING'S PROBLEM
- WILSON'S THEOREM
- ZORN'S LEMMA
- CHAPTER 4: MEASUREMENTS
- MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS
- EARLY UNITS AND STANDARDS
- THE ENGLISH AND U.S. CUSTOMARY SYSTEMS OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
- THE METRIC SYSTEM OF MEASUREMENT
- MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENTS AND SYSTEMS
- MEASUREMENT THEORY
- CHAPTER 5: MEASUREMENT PIONEERS
- NORMAN ROBERT CAMPBELL
- ANDERS CELSIUS
- GIOVANNI GIORGI
- EDMUND GUNTER
- JOSEPH-LOUIS LAGRANGE
- PIERRE-SIMON LAPLACE
- PIERRE MECHAIN
- JESSE RAMSDEN
- CHAPTER 6: MEASUREMENT TERMS AND CONCEPTS
- ACRE
- AMPHORA
- ANGSTROM (Å)
- APOTHECARIES' WEIGHT
- ARE
- AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHT
- BARREL
- BAT
- BRITISH IMPERIAL SYSTEM
- BUSHEL
- CENTIMETRE (CM)
- CORD
- CUBIT
- CUP
- DRAM
- FATHOM
- FINGER
- FOOT
- FURLONG
- GAL
- GILL
- GRAIN
- GRAM (GM OR G)
- GUNTER'S CHAIN
- HAND
- HECTARE
- INCH
- INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
- INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM OF UNITS
- INTERNATIONAL UNIT (IU)
- KILOMETRE (KM)
- KNOT
- LEAGUE
- LIBRA
- LITRE (L)
- LOG
- METRE
- METRETES
- METRIC SYSTEM
- MICROMETRE
- MILE
- MILLIMETRE (MM)
- MINA
- MOU
- OUNCE
- PECK
- PINT
- POUND
- QA
- QUART
- ROD
- SCRUPLE
- SHI
- STERADIAN
- STERE
- STONE
- TALENT
- TON
- TROY WEIGHT
- ZHANG
- GLOSSARY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- NUMERALS AND NUMERAL SYSTEMS
- ARITHMETIC
- SET THEORY
- NUMBER THEORY
- MEASUREMENT SYSTEM
- INDEX
- BACK COVER
