Episodic History of Mathematics Mathematical Culture Through Problem Solving

Name: Episodic History of Mathematics Mathematical Culture Through Problem Solving
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ISBN: 9780883857663

ISBN-10: 0883857669

ISBN-13: 9780883857663

Edition: 2010

Authors: Steven G. Krantz

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Book details

List price: $72.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Publication date: 12/30/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 360
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English



Preface



The Ancient Greeks



Zeno's Paradox and the concept of limit



The mystical mathematics of Hypatia



The Islamic world and the development of algebra



Cardano, Abel, Galois, and the solving of equations



Rene Descartes and the idea of coordinates



The invention of differential calculus



The great Isaac Newton



Complex numbers and polynomials



The prince of mathematics



Sophie Germain and Fermat's Problem



Cauchy and the foundations of analysis



The prime numbers



Dirichlet and how to count



Riemann and the geometry of surfaces



Georg Cantor and the orders of infinity



The natural numbers



Henri Poincarï¿½, child phenomenon



Sonya Kovalevskaya and mechanics



Emmy Noether and algebra



Methods of proof



Alan Turing and cryptography


Bibliography


Index