Math Through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and OthersCourier Dover Publications, 20. mar. 2019 - 272 strani "This is a beautiful, important book, a pleasure to read, in which the history recounted truly illuminates the mathematical ideas, and the ideas themselves are superbly explained; a wonderful accomplishment." — Barry Mazur, Harvard University "Math Through the Ages is a treasure, one of the best history of math books at its level ever written. Somehow, it manages to stay true to a surprisingly sophisticated story, while respecting the needs of its audience. Its overview of the subject captures most of what one needs to know, and the 30 sketches are small gems of exposition that stimulate further exploration." — Glen Van Brummelen, Quest University Designed for students just beginning their study of the discipline, this concise introductory history of mathematics is supplemented by brief but in-depth sketches of the more important individual topics. Covering such subjects as algebra symbols, negative numbers, the metric system, quadratic equations, and much more, this widely adopted work invites and encourages further study of mathematics. |
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... texts for liberal arts students and as an important part of his contributions to an NCTM Standards-based high school mathematics series. The other has done considerable background research in the field, has participated in the ...
... texts for liberal arts students and as an important part of his contributions to an NCTM Standards-based high school mathematics series. The other has done considerable background research in the field, has participated in the ...
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... texts. The abundance of these texts allows us to develop a clearer picture of what Mesopotamian mathematics was like, though of course many mysteries remain. The mathematical activity of the Babylonian scribes seems to have arisen from ...
... texts. The abundance of these texts allows us to develop a clearer picture of what Mesopotamian mathematics was like, though of course many mysteries remain. The mathematical activity of the Babylonian scribes seems to have arisen from ...
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... texts from before 100 A.D. survived. These natural difficulties were sometimes compounded by human perversity. Just after the Imperial unification. *This text is a lightly modernized form of a translation given in 192], page 30. 12 The ...
... texts from before 100 A.D. survived. These natural difficulties were sometimes compounded by human perversity. Just after the Imperial unification. *This text is a lightly modernized form of a translation given in 192], page 30. 12 The ...
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... texts being found by archaeologists. In many cases, the bamboo or wooden strips have survived, but not the string that held them together, so scholars find themselves having to figure out which strips go with which and in what order ...
... texts being found by archaeologists. In many cases, the bamboo or wooden strips have survived, but not the string that held them together, so scholars find themselves having to figure out which strips go with which and in what order ...
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... texts are the Vedas, a large collection of verses that probably achieved its final form around 600 B.C. They come with supplementary texts called the. Sulbasutras,. which mostly focus on the rules for building altars. That requires some ...
... texts are the Vedas, a large collection of verses that probably achieved its final form around 600 B.C. They come with supplementary texts called the. Sulbasutras,. which mostly focus on the rules for building altars. That requires some ...
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Sketches | 63 |
Coordinate Geometry | 137 |
Complex Numbers | 143 |
Sine and Cosine | 149 |
The NonEuclidean Geometries | 155 |
Projective Geometry | 161 |
The Start of Probability Theory | 165 |
The Tangent Function | 193 |
Logarithms | 199 |
Conic Sections | 205 |
Irrational Numbers | 211 |
Barely Touching From Tangents to Derivatives | 217 |
What to Read Next | 223 |
Twelve Historical Books You Ought to Read | 226 |
History Online | 228 |
Statistics Becomes a Science | 171 |
Electronic Computers | 177 |
Boolean Algebra | 183 |
Infinity and the Theory of Sets | 187 |
When They Lived | 231 |
Bibliography | 237 |
Index | 251 |
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