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A brief history of mathematical thought /
"For many people, anxiety about math is so entrenched, and grade school memories so haunting, that these disclaimers - though misleading - are necessary to avoid intimidating potential buyers. In A Brief History of Mathematical Thought, Luke Heaton provides a compulsively readable history that...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
Oxford University Press USA : Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Beginnings
- From Greece to Rome
- Ratio and proportion
- The rise of algebra
- Mechanics and the calculus
- Leonhard Euler and the bridges of Königsberg
- Euclid's fifth and the reinvention of geometry
- Working with the infinite
- The structures of logical form
- Alan Turing and the concept of computation
- Kurt Gödel and the power of polynomials
- Modelling the world
- Lived experience and the nature of facts
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgements
- Index.