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Autore |
Merzbach Uta C. <1933-> |
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A history of mathematics / / Uta Merzbach and Carl B. Boyer |
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Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2011 |
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9786612987557 |
9780470630563 |
0470630566 |
9781282987555 |
1282987550 |
9780470630549 |
047063054X |
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Edizione |
[3rd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (690 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BoyerCarl B <1906-1976.> (Carl Benjamin) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mathematics - History |
Mathematics - Study and teaching |
Història de la matemàtica |
Llibres electrònics |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 633-646) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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A History of Mathematics; Contents; Foreword by Isaac Asimov; Preface to the Third Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; 1: Traces; 2: Ancient Egypt; 3: Mesopotamia; 4: Hellenic Traditions; 5: Euclid of Alexandria; 6: Archimedes of Syracuse; 7: Apollonius of Perge; 8: Crosscurrents; 9: Ancient and Medieval China; 10: Ancient and Medieval India; 11: The Islamic Hegemony; 12: The Latin West; 13: The European Renaissance; 14: Early Modern Problem Solvers; 15: Analysis, Synthesis, the Infinite, and Numbers; 16: British Techniques and Continental Methods; 17: Euler |
18: Pre- to Postrevolutionary France19: Gauss; 20: Geometry; 21: Algebra; 22: Analysis; 23: Twentieth-Century Legacies; 24: Recent Trends; References; General Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This revised edition features up-to-date coverage of topics such as Fermat's Last Theorem and the Poincare Conjecture, in addition to |
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