1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967800703321

Autore

Merzbach Uta C. <1933->

Titolo

A history of mathematics / / Uta Merzbach and Carl B. Boyer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2011

ISBN

9786612987557

9780470630563

0470630566

9781282987555

1282987550

9780470630549

047063054X

Edizione

[3rd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (690 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BoyerCarl B <1906-1976.> (Carl Benjamin)

Disciplina

510.9

Soggetti

Mathematics - History

Mathematics - Study and teaching

Història de la matemàtica

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 633-646) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

This revised edition features up-to-date coverage of topics such as Fermat's Last Theorem and the Poincare Conjecture, in addition to



recent advances in areas such as finite group theory and computer-aided proofs. It distills thousands of years of mathematics into a single, approachable volume.