Screen LibraryThe history of mathematics : a source-based approach. Volume 2 /
"The History of Mathematics: A Source-Based Approach is a comprehensive history of the development of mathematics. This, the first volume of the two-volume set, takes readers from the beginning of counting in prehistory to 1600 and the threshold of the discovery of calculus. It is notable for t...
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MAA Press, an imprint of the American Mathematical Society,
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| Publisher Address: | Providence, Rhode Island : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
AMS/MAA textbooks ;
volume 61 |
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| Summary: |
"The History of Mathematics: A Source-Based Approach is a comprehensive history of the development of mathematics. This, the first volume of the two-volume set, takes readers from the beginning of counting in prehistory to 1600 and the threshold of the discovery of calculus. It is notable for the extensive engagement with original--primary and secondary--source material. The coverage is worldwide, and embraces developments, including education, in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, China, India, the Islamic world and Europe. The emphasis on astronomy and its historical relationship to mathematics is new, and the presentation of every topic is informed by the most recent scholarship in the field. The two-volume set was designed as a textbook for the authors' acclaimed year-long course at the Open University. It is, in addition to being an innovative and insightful textbook, an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the history of mathematics. The authors, each among the most distinguished mathematical historians in the world, have produced over fifty books and earned scholarly and expository prizes from the major mathematical societies of the English-speaking world."-- |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 687 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 663-681) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781470443825 1470443821 |
| Index Number: | QA21 |
| CLC: | O1-09 |
| Call Number: | O1-09/B278/v.2 |
| Contents: | Part 1. The 17th and 18th centuries : Introduction: The 17th and 18th centuries -- The Invention of the Calculus -- Newton and Leibniz -- The Development of the Calculus -- Newtons Principia Mathematica -- The Spread of the Calculus -- The 18th century -- 18th-century Number Theory and Geometry -- Euler, Lagrange, and 18th-century Calculus -- 18th-century Applied Mathematics -- 18th-century Celestial Mechanics -- Part 2. The 19th Century : Introduction: The 19th Century -- The Profession of Mathematics -- Non-Euclidean Geometry -- Projective Geometry and the Axiomatisation of Mathematics -- The Rigorisation of Analysis -- The Foundations of Mathematics -- Algebra and Number Theory -- Group Theory -- Applied Mathematics -- Poincare? and Celestial Mechanics -- Coda -- Exercises. |