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CMS Books in Mathematics / Ouvrages de mathématiques de la SMC
2000

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Titel
Two Millennia of Mathematics : From Archimedes to Gauss [Elektronische Ressource]
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  • CMS Books in Mathematics / Ouvrages de mathématiques de la SMC
Ort / Verlag
New York, NY : Springer New York
Erscheinungsjahr
2000
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Beschreibungen/Notizen
  • This book is intended for those who love mathematics, including undergraduate students of mathematics, more experienced students, and the vast number of amateurs, in the literal sense of those who do something for the love of it. I hope it will also be a useful source of material for those who teach mathematics. It is a collection of loosely connected topics in areas of mathematics that particularly interest me, ranging over the two millennia from the work of Archimedes, who died in the year 212 Be, to the Werke of Gauss, who was born in 1777, although there are some references outside this period. In view of its title, I must emphasize that this book is certainly not pretending to be a comprehensive history of the mathematics of this period, or even a complete account of the topics discussed. However, every chapter is written with the history of its topic in mind. It is fascinating, for example, to follow how both Napier and Briggs constructed their logarithms before many of the most relevant mathematical ideas had been discovered. Do I really mean "discovered"? There is an old question, "Is mathematics created or discovered?" Sometimes it seems a shame not to use the word "create" in praise of the first mathematician to write down some outstanding result. Yet the inner harmony that sings out from the best of mathematics seems to demand the word "discover
Sprache
Englisch
Identifikatoren
ISBN: 9781461211808, 9781461270355
OCLC-Nummer: 863735587, 863735587
Titel-ID: 990018235120106463
Format
XII, 223 p
Schlagworte
Mathematics, Mathematics, general