Numbers and Geometry

Name: Numbers and Geometry
Price: 47.42 USD
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ISBN: 9780387982892

ISBN-10: 0387982892

ISBN-13: 9780387982892

Edition: 1998

Authors: John Stillwell, F. W. Gehring, P. R. Halmos

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NUMBERS AND GEOMETRY is a beautiful and relatively elementary account of a part of mathematics where three main fields--algebra, analysis and geometry--meet. The aim of this book is to give a broad view of these subjects at the level of calculus, without being a calculus (or a pre-calculus) book. Its roots are in arithmetic and geometry, the two opposite poles of mathematics, and the source of historic conceptual conflict. The resolution of this conflict, and its role in the development of mathematics, is one of the main stories in the book. The key is algebra, which brings arithmetic and geometry together, and allows them to flourish and branch out in new directions. Stillwell has chosen…

Book details

List price: $64.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Springer New York
Publication date: 10/30/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 343
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.34" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Arithmetic


Geometry


Coordinates


Rational points


Trigonometry


Finite arithmetic


Complex numbers


Conic sections


Elementary functions