Screen LibraryTurning points in the history of mathematics /
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Birkhäuser,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Compact textbooks in mathematics,
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| Carrier Form: | ix, 109 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781493932634 (paperback) : 1493932632 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | QA21 |
| CLC: | O1-09 |
| Call Number: | O1-09/G762 |
| Contents: | Axiomatics -- Euclid's and Hilbert's: From Material to Formal -- Solution by Radicals of the Cubic: From Equations to Groups and from Real to Complex Numbers -- Analytic Geometry: From the Marriage of Two Fields to the Birth of a Third -- Probability: From Games of Chance to an Abstract Theory -- Calculus: From Tangents and Areas to Derivatives and Integrals -- Gaussian Integers: From Arithmetic to Arithmetics -- Non-Euclidean Geometry: From One Geometry to Many -- Hypercomplex Numbers: From Algebra to Algebras -- The Infinite: From Potential to Actual -- Philosophy of Mathematics: From Hilbert to Gödel -- Some Further Turning Points -- Index. |