Who gave you the epsilon? and other tales of mathematical history /
| Автор-организации: | ebrary, Inc. |
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| Други автори: | Anderson, Marlow, 1950-, Katz, Victor J., Wilson, Robin J. |
| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Washington, D.C. :
Mathematical Association of America,
c2009.
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| Серия: |
MAA spectrum.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
Съдържание:
- [Pt. 1.] Analysis
- Who gave you the epsilon? : Cauchy and the origins of rigorous calculus /
- Judith V. Grabiner
- Evolution of the function concept : a brief survey /
- Israel Kleiner
- S. Kovalevsky : a mathematical lesson /
- Karen D. Rappaport
- Highlights in the history of spectral theory /
- L.A. Steen
- Alan Turing and the central limit theorem /
- S.L. Zabell
- Why did George Green write his essay of 1828 on electricity and magnetism? /
- I. Grattan-Guinness
- Connectivity and smoke-rings : Green's second identity in its first fifty years /
- Thomas Archibald
- The history of Stokes' theorem /
- Victor J. Katz
- The mathematical collaboration of M.L. Cartwright and J.E. Littlewood /
- Shawnee L. McMurran and
- James J. Tattersall
- Dr. David Harold Blackwell, African American pioneer /
- Nkechi Agwu,
- Luella Smith and
- Aissatou Barry
- [pt. 2.] Geometry, topology and foundations
- Gauss and the non-Euclidean geometry /
- George Bruce Halsted
- History of the parallel postulate /
- Florence P. Lewis
- The rise and fall of projective geometry /
- J.L. Coolidge
- Notes on the history of geometrical ideas /
- Dan Pedoe
- A note on the history of the Cantor set and Cantor function /
- Julian F. Fleron
- Evolution of the topological concept of "connected" /
- R.L. Wilder
- A brief, subjective history of homology and homotopy theory in this century /
- Peter Hilton
- The origins of modern axiomatics : Pasch to Peano /
- H.C. Kennedy
- C.S. Pierce's philosophy of infinite sets /
- Joseph W. Dauben
- On the development of logics between the two world wars /
- I. Grattan-Guinness
- Dedekind's theorem : [square root of 2] x [square root of 3] = [square root of 6] /
- David Fowler
- [pt. 3.] Algebra and number theory
- Hamilton's discovery of quaternions /
- B.L. van der Waerden
- Hamilton, Rodrigues, and the quaternion scandal /
- Simon L. Altmann
- Building an international reputation : the case of J.J. Sylvester (1814-1897) /
- Karen Hunger Parshall and
- Eugene Seneta
- The foundation period in the history of group theory /
- Josephine E. Burns
- The evolution of group theory : a brief survey /
- Israel Kleiner
- The search for finite simple groups /
- Joseph A. Gallian
- Genius and biographers : the fictionalization of Evariste Galois /
- Tony Rothman
- Hermann Grassmann and the creation of linear algebra /
- Desmond Fearnley-Sander
- The roots of commutative algebra in algebraic number theory /
- Israel Kleiner
- Eisenstein's misunderstood geometric proof of the quadratic reciprocity theorem /
- Reinhard C. Laubenbacher and
- David J. Pengelley
- Waring's problem /
- Charles Small
- A history of the prime number theorem /
- L.J. Goldstein
- A hundred years of prime numbers /
- Paul T. Bateman and
- Harold G. Diamond
- The Indian mathematician Ramanujan /
- G.H. Hardy
- Emmy Noether /
- Clark H. Kimberling
- "A marvelous proof" /
- Fernando Q. Gouvêa
- [pt. 4.] Surveys
- The International Congress of Mathematicians /
- George Bruce Halsted
- A popular account of some new fields of thought in mathematics /
- G.A. Miller
- A half-century of mathematics /
- Hermann Weyl
- Mathematics at the turn of the millennium /
- Philip A. Griffiths.