History of Mathematics An Introduction

Name: History of Mathematics An Introduction
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ISBN: 9780072885231

ISBN-10: 0072885238

ISBN-13: 9780072885231

Edition: 5th 2003 (Revised)

Authors: David M. Burton

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List price: $126.25
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date: 12/12/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Size: 8.25" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 3.080
Language: English

Preface
Early Number Systems and Symbols	p. 1
Mathematics in Early Civilizations	p. 31
The Beginnings of Greek Mathematics	p. 81
The First Alexandrian School: Euclid	p. 137
The Second Alexandrian School: Diophantus	p. 218
The First Awakening: Fibonacci	p. 244
The Cubic Controversy: Cardan and Tartaglia	p. 275
The Mechanical World: Descartes and Newton	p. 309
The Development of Probability Theory: Pascal, Bernoulli, and Laplace	p. 394
The Renaissance of Number Theory: Fermat, Euler, and Gauss	p. 449
Non-Euclidean Geometry: Bolyai and Lobachevsky	p. 506
The Theory of Sets: Georg Cantor	p. 584
Extensions and Generalizations: Hardy, Hausdorff, and Noether	p. 633
General Bibliography	p. 656
Additional Reading	p. 658
The Greek Alphabet	p. 659
Solutions to Selected Problems	p. 660
Index	p. 681
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