Journey Through Genius Great Theorems of Mathematics

Name: Journey Through Genius Great Theorems of Mathematics
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ISBN: 9780471500308

ISBN-10: 0471500305

ISBN-13: 9780471500308

Edition: 1990

Authors: William Dunham

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Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/16/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.29" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Hippocrates' Quadrature of the Lune (ca. 440 B.C.)


Euclid's Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem (ca. 300 B.C.)


Euclid and the Infinitude of Primes (ca. 300 B.C.)


Archimedes' Determination of Circular Area (ca. 225 B.C.)


Heron's Formula for Triangular Area (ca. A.D. 75)


Cardano and the Solution of the Cubic (1545)


A Gem from Isaac Newton (Late 1660s)


The Bernoullis and the Harmonic Series (1689)


The Extraordinary Sums of Leonhard Euler (1734)


A Sampler of Euler's Number Theory (1736)


The Non-Denumerability of the Continuum (1874)


Cantor and the Transfinite Realm (1891)


Afterword


Chapter Notes


References


Index