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A history of mathematics : an introduction / Victor J. Katz
| A history of mathematics : an introduction / Victor J. Katz |
| Autore | Katz, Victor J. |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Reading (Mass.) : Addison Wesley Longman, 1998 |
| Descrizione fisica | xiv, 864 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
| Soggetto non controllato | Storia della matematica |
| ISBN | 0-321-01618-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-990001497020403321 |
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| Reading (Mass.) : Addison Wesley Longman, 1998 | ||
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A history of mathematics / / Victor J. Katz
| A history of mathematics / / Victor J. Katz |
| Autore | Katz Victor J. |
| Edizione | [Third edition, Pearson new international edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Harlow, England : , : Pearson, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (947 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Disciplina | 510.9 |
| Collana | Pearson Custom Library |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics - History
Mathematics History of mathematics |
| ISBN | 1-292-05378-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1. Egypt and Mesopotamia -- Chapter 2. The Beginnings of Mathematics in Greece -- Chapter 3. Euclid -- Chapter 4. Archimedes and Apollonius -- Chapter 5. Mathematical Methods in Hellenistic Times -- Chapter 6. The Final Chapter of Greek Mathematics -- Chapter 7. Ancient and Medieval China -- Chapter 8. Ancient and Medieval India -- Chapter 9. The Mathematics of Islam -- Chapter 10. Medieval Europe -- Chapter 11. Mathematics Elsewhere -- Chapter 12. Algebra in the Renaissance -- Chapter 13. Mathematical Methods in the Renaissance -- Chapter 14. Geometry, Algebra and Probability in the Seventeenth Century -- Chapter 15. The Beginnings of Calculus -- Chapter 16. Newton and Leibniz -- Chapter 17. Analysis in the Eighteenth Century -- Chapter 18. Probability and Statistics in the Eighteenth Century -- Chapter 19. Algebra and Number Theory in the Eighteenth Century -- Chapter 20. Geometry in the Eighteenth Century -- Chapter 21. Algebra and Number Theory in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 22. Analysis in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 23. Probability and Statistics in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 24. Geometry in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 25. Aspects of the Twentieth Century -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910153071703321 |
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Katz Victor J.
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| Harlow, England : , : Pearson, , 2014 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A history of mathematics : an introduction / Victor J. Katz
| A history of mathematics : an introduction / Victor J. Katz |
| Autore | Katz, Victor J. |
| Edizione | [2nd ed] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1998 |
| Descrizione fisica | xiv, 864, 15 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Disciplina | 510.9 |
| Soggetto topico | Mathematics-history |
| ISBN | 0321016181 |
| Classificazione |
AMS 01A05
QA21.K33 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991000982169707536 |
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Katz, Victor J.
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| Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1998 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Salento | ||
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The mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam : a sourcebook / Victor Katz, editor ; Annette Imhausen ... [et al.]
| The mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam : a sourcebook / Victor Katz, editor ; Annette Imhausen ... [et al.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | xiv, 685 p. : ill. ; 27 cm |
| Disciplina | 510.9 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
Katz, Victor J.author
Imhausen, Annette |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics, Ancient - Sources
Mathematics - History - Sources |
| ISBN |
9780691114859
0691114854 |
| Classificazione |
AMS 01-06
AMS 01A05 LC QA22.M3735 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991003798959707536 |
| Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Salento | ||
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Sherlock Holmes in Babylon [[electronic resource] ] : and other tales of mathematical history / / edited by Marlow Anderson, Victor Katz, Robin Wilson
| Sherlock Holmes in Babylon [[electronic resource] ] : and other tales of mathematical history / / edited by Marlow Anderson, Victor Katz, Robin Wilson |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : Mathematical Association of America, c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (398 p.) |
| Disciplina | 510.9 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AndersonMarlow <1950->
KatzVictor J WilsonRobin J |
| Collana | Spectrum series |
| Soggetto topico | Mathematics - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-61444-503-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Ancient mathematics. Sherlock Holmes in Babylon / R. Creighton Buck -- Words and pictures: new light on Plimpton 322 / Eleanor Robson -- Mathematics, 600 B.C.-600 A.D. / Max Dehn -- Diophantus of Alexandria / J.D. Swift -- Hypatia of Alexandria / A.W. Richeson -- Hypatia and her mathematics / Michael A.B. Deakin -- The evolution of mathematics in ancient China / Frank Swetz -- Liu Hui and the first golden age of Chinese mathematics / Philip D. Straffin, Jr. -- Number systems of the North American Indians / W.C. Eells -- The number system of the Mayas / A.W. Richeson -- Before the conquest / Marcia Ascher -- Medieval and renaissance mathematics. The discovery of the series formula for [pi] by Leibniz, Gregory and Nilakantha / Ranjan Roy -- Ideas of calculus in Islam and India / Victor J. Katz -- Was calculus invented in India? / David Bressoud -- An early iterative method for the determinationof sin 1⁰ / Farhad Riahi ---
Leonardo of Pisa and his Liber Quadratorum / R.B. McClenon -- The algorists vs. the abacists: an ancient controversy on the use of calculators / Barbara E. Reynolds -- Sidelights on the Cardan-Tartaglia controversy / Martin A. Nordgaard -- Reading Bombelli's x-purgated algebra / Abraham Arcavi and Maxim Bruckheimer -- The first work on mathematics printed in the New World / David Eugene Smith -- The seventeenth century. An application of geography to mathematics: history of the integral of the secant / V. Frederick Rickey and Philip M. Tuchinsky -- Some historical notes on the cycloid / E.A. Whitman -- Descartes and the problem-solving / Judith Grabiner -- René Descartes' curve-drawing devices: experiments in the relations between mechanical motion and symbolic language / David Dennis -- Certain mathematical achievements of James Gregory / Max Dehn and E.D. Hellinger -- The changing concept of change: the derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass / Judith V. Grabiner --- The crooked made straight: Roberval and Newton on tangents / Paul R. Wolfson -- On the discovery of the logarithmic series and its development in England up to Cotes / Josef Ehrenfried Hofmann -- Isaac Newton: man, myth and mathematics / V. Frederick Rickey -- Reading the master: Newton and the birth of celestial mechanics / Bruce Pourciau -- Newton as an originator of polar coordinates / C.B. Boyer -- Newton's method for resolving affected equations / Chris Christensen -- A contribution of Leibniz to the history of complex numbers / R.B. McClenon -- Functions of a curve: Leibniz's original notion of functions / David Dennis and Jere Confrey -- The eighteenth century. Brook Taylor and the mathematical theory of linear perspectives / P.S. Jones -- Was Newton's calculus a dead end? The continental influence of Maclaurin's treatise of fluxions / Judith Grabiner -- Discussion of fluxions: from Berkeley to Woodhouse / Florian Cajori --- The Bernoullis and the harmonic series / William Dunham -- Leonhard Euler 1707-1783 / J.J. Burckhardt -- The number e / J.L. Coolidge -- Euler's vision of a general partial differential calculus for a generalized kind of function / Jesper Lützen -- Euler and the fundamental theorem of algebra / William Dunham -- Euler and differentials / Anthony P. Ferzola -- Euler and quadratic reciprocity / Harold M. Edwards. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465223103321 |
| Washington, D.C., : Mathematical Association of America, c2004 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Who gave you the epsilon? [[electronic resource] ] : and other tales of mathematical history / / edited by Marlow Anderson, Victor Katz, Robin Wilson
| Who gave you the epsilon? [[electronic resource] ] : and other tales of mathematical history / / edited by Marlow Anderson, Victor Katz, Robin Wilson |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : Mathematical Association of America, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (442 p.) |
| Disciplina | 510.9 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AndersonMarlow <1950->
KatzVictor J WilsonRobin J |
| Collana | Spectrum series |
| Soggetto topico | Mathematics - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-61444-504-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | ; [Pt. 1.] Analysis -- Who gave you the epsilon? : Cauchy and the origins of rigorous calculus / Judith V. Grabiner -- Evolution of the function concept : a brief survey / Israel Kleiner -- S. Kovalevsky : a mathematical lesson / Karen D. Rappaport -- Highlights in the history of spectral theory / L.A. Steen -- Alan Turing and the central limit theorem / S.L. Zabell -- Why did George Green write his essay of 1828 on electricity and magnetism? / I. Grattan-Guinness -- Connectivity and smoke-rings : Green's second identity in its first fifty years / Thomas Archibald -- The history of Stokes' theorem / Victor J. Katz -- The mathematical collaboration of M.L. Cartwright and J.E. Littlewood / Shawnee L. McMurran and James J. Tattersall -- Dr. David Harold Blackwell, African American pioneer / Nkechi Agwu, Luella Smith and Aissatou Barry -- ; [pt. 2.] Geometry, topology and foundations -- Gauss and the non-Euclidean geometry / George Bruce Halsted -- History of the parallel postulate / Florence P. Lewis -- The rise and fall of projective geometry / J.L. Coolidge -- Notes on the history of geometrical ideas / Dan Pedoe -- A note on the history of the Cantor set and Cantor function / Julian F. Fleron -- Evolution of the topological concept of "connected" / R.L. Wilder -- A brief, subjective history of homology and homotopy theory in this century / Peter Hilton -- The origins of modern axiomatics : Pasch to Peano / H.C. Kennedy -- C.S. Pierce's philosophy of infinite sets / Joseph W. Dauben -- On the development of logics between the two world wars / I. Grattan-Guinness -- Dedekind's theorem : [square root of 2] x [square root of 3] = [square root of 6] / David Fowler -- ; [pt. 3.] Algebra and number theory -- Hamilton's discovery of quaternions / B.L. van der Waerden -- Hamilton, Rodrigues, and the quaternion scandal / Simon L. Altmann -- Building an international reputation : the case of J.J. Sylvester (1814-1897) / Karen Hunger Parshall and Eugene Seneta -- The foundation period in the history of group theory / Josephine E. Burns -- The evolution of group theory : a brief survey / Israel Kleiner -- The search for finite simple groups / Joseph A. Gallian -- Genius and biographers : the fictionalization of Evariste Galois / Tony Rothman -- Hermann Grassmann and the creation of linear algebra / Desmond Fearnley-Sander -- The roots of commutative algebra in algebraic number theory / Israel Kleiner -- Eisenstein's misunderstood geometric proof of the quadratic reciprocity theorem / Reinhard C. Laubenbacher and David J. Pengelley -- Waring's problem / Charles Small -- A history of the prime number theorem / L.J. Goldstein -- A hundred years of prime numbers / Paul T. Bateman and Harold G. Diamond -- The Indian mathematician Ramanujan / G.H. Hardy -- Emmy Noether / Clark H. Kimberling -- "A marvelous proof" / Fernando Q. Gouvêa -- ; [pt. 4.] Surveys -- The International Congress of Mathematicians / George Bruce Halsted -- A popular account of some new fields of thought in mathematics / G.A. Miller -- A half-century of mathematics / Hermann Weyl -- Mathematics at the turn of the millennium / Philip A. Griffiths. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465222603321 |
| Washington, D.C., : Mathematical Association of America, c2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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