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Who gave you the epsilon? : and other tales of mathematical history /
Who Gave You the Epsilon? is a sequel to the MAA bestselling book, Sherlock Holmes in Babylon. Like its predecessor, this book is a collection of articles on the history of mathematics from the MAA journals, in many cases written by distinguished mathematicians (such as G H Hardy and B. van der Waer...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
Mathematical Association of America,
©2009.
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| Colección: | MAA spectrum.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- [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.