The history of mathematics : an introduction / David M. Burton.

By:

Burton, David M., author

Material type:

TextPublication details: Boston : McGraw Hill, c2007.Edition: Sixth editionDescription: xii, 788 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:

9780071253895

Subject(s):

Mathematics -- History

LOC classification:

CIR QA 21 B87 2007

Contents:

Ch. 1 Early number systems and symbols 1 Ch. 2 Mathematics in early civilizations 33 Ch. 3 The beginnings of Greek mathematics 85 Ch. 4 The Alexandrian school : Euclid 143 Ch. 5 The twilight of Greek mathematics : Diophantus 215 Ch. 6 The first awakening : Fibonacci 271 Ch. 7 The renaissance of mathematics : Cardan and Tartaglia 303 Ch. 8 The mechanical world : Descartes and Newton 339 Ch. 9 The development of probability theory : Pascal, Bernoulli, and Laplace 439 Ch. 10 The revival of number theory : Fermat, Euler, and Gauss 497 Ch. 11 Nineteenth-century contributions : Lobachevsky to Hilbert 561 Ch. 12 Transition to the twentieth century : Cantor and Kronecker 653 Ch. 13 Extensions and generalizations : Hardy, Hausdorff and Noether 713

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Ch. 1 Early number systems and symbols 1
Ch. 2 Mathematics in early civilizations 33
Ch. 3 The beginnings of Greek mathematics 85
Ch. 4 The Alexandrian school : Euclid 143
Ch. 5 The twilight of Greek mathematics : Diophantus 215
Ch. 6 The first awakening : Fibonacci 271
Ch. 7 The renaissance of mathematics : Cardan and Tartaglia 303
Ch. 8 The mechanical world : Descartes and Newton 339
Ch. 9 The development of probability theory : Pascal, Bernoulli, and Laplace 439
Ch. 10 The revival of number theory : Fermat, Euler, and Gauss 497
Ch. 11 Nineteenth-century contributions : Lobachevsky to Hilbert 561
Ch. 12 Transition to the twentieth century : Cantor and Kronecker 653
Ch. 13 Extensions and generalizations : Hardy, Hausdorff and Noether 713

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