A history of mathematics / / Uta Merzbach and Carl B. Boyer
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| Autore: |
Merzbach Uta C. <1933->
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| Titolo: |
A history of mathematics / / Uta Merzbach and Carl B. Boyer
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| Pubblicazione: | Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2011 |
| Edizione: | 3rd ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (690 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 510.9 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mathematics - History |
| Mathematics - Study and teaching | |
| Història de la matemàtica | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Llibres electrònics |
| Altri autori: |
BoyerCarl B <1906-1976.> (Carl Benjamin)
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| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A history of mathematics |
| ISBN: | 0-470-63056-6 |
| 1-282-98755-0 | |
| 9786612987557 | |
| 0-470-63054-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820002903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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