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Mathematics and its History

Door John Stillwell

Categorie
Algemeen wetenschap
Boeknummer
#342246-ZA24
Titel
Mathematics and its History
Auteur
Stillwell, John
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij
New York : Springer-Verlag
Jaar van uitgave
1989
ISBN10
0387969810
ISBN13
9780387969817
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, illustrated with numerous equations and diagrams, 8vo. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics.
Samenvatting
One of the disappointments experienced by most mathematics students is that they never get a course in mathematics. They get courses in calculus, algebra, topology, and so on, but the division of labor in teaching seems to prevent these different topics from being combined into a whole. In fact, some of the most important and natural questions are stifled because they fall on the wrong side of topic boundary lines. Algebraists do not discuss the fundamental theorem of algebra because "that's analysis" and analysts do not discuss Riemann surfaces because "that's topology," for example. Thus if students are to feel they really know mathematics by the time they graduate, there is a need to unify the subject. This book aims to give a unified view of undergraduate mathematic... (Lees verder)s by approaching the subject through its history. Since readers should have had some mathematical experience, certain basics are assumed and the mathe­ matics is not developed as formally as in a standard text. On the other hand, the mathematics is pursued more thoroughly than in most general histories of mathematics, as mathematics is our main goal and history only the means of approaching it. Readers are assumed to know basic calculus, algebra, and geometry, to understand the language of set theory, and to have met some more advanced topics such as group theory, topology, and differential equations.
Pagina's
371
Conditie
Goed — Spine slightly discoloured, name in pen on title page.
Prijs
€ 20,00

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