| Description |
387 pages : illustrations. |
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Spectrum series
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Spectrum series.
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| Contents |
Sherlock Holmes in Babylon / R. Creighton Buck -- Words and pictures: New light on plimpton 322 / Eleanor Robson -- Mathematics, 600 B. C.-600 A. D. / Max Dehn -- Diophantus of Alexandria / J. D. Swift -- Hypatia of Alexandria / A. W. Richeson -- Hypatia and her mathematics / Michael A. B. Deakin -- The evolution of mathematics in ancient China / Frank Swetz -- Liu Hui and the first golden age of Chinese mathematics / Philip D. Straffin Jr. -- The number system of the mayas / A. W. Richeson -- Before the conquest / Marcia Ascher -- The discovery of the series formula for pi by Leibniz, Gregory and Nilakantha / Ranjan Roy -- Ideas of calculus in islam and India / Victor J. Katz -- Was calculus invented in India? / David Bressound -- An early iterative method for the determination of sin 1degree / Farhad Riahi -- Leonardo of Pisa and his Liber quadratorum / R. B. McClenon -- The algorists vs. the abacists: An ancient controversy on the use of calculators / Barbera E. Reynolds -- Sidelights on the Cardan-Tartaglia controversy / Martin A. Nordgaard -- Reading Bombelli's x-purgated algebra / Abraham Arcavi and Maxim Bruckheimer -- The first work on mathematics printed in the new world / David Eugene Smith -- An application of geography to mathematics: History of the integral of the secant / V. Frederick Rickey and Philip M. Tuchinsky -- Some historical notes on the cycloid / E. A. Whitman -- Descartes and problem-solving / Judith Grabiner -- Rene Descartes' curve-drawing devices: Experiments in the relations between mechanical motion and symbolic language / David Dennis -- Certain mathematical achievements of James Gregory / Max Dehn and E. D. Hellinger -- The changing concept of change: The derivative from fermat to Weierstrass / Judith V. Grabiner -- The crooked made straight: Roberval and Newton on tangents / Paul R. Wolfson -- On the discovery of the logarithmic series and its development in England up to Cotes / Josef Ehrenfried Hofmann -- Isaac Newton: Man, myth and mathematics / V. Frederick Rickey -- Reading the master: Newton and the birth of celestial mechanics / Bruce Pourciau -- Newton as an originator of polar coordinates / C. B. Boyer -- Newton's method for resolving affected equations / Chris Christensen -- A contribution of Leibniz to the history of complex numbers / R. B. McClenon -- Functions of a curve: Leibniz's original notion of functions and its meaning for the parabola / David Dennis and Jere Confrey -- Brook Taylor and the mathematical theory of linear perspective / P. S. Jones -- Was Newton's calculus a dead end? The continental influence of Maclaurin's treatise of fluxions / Judith Grabiner -- Discussion of fluxions: From Berkeley to woodhouse / Florian Cajori -- The bernoullis and the harmonic series / William Dunham -- Leonhard Euler 1707-1783 / J. J. Burckhardt -- The number / J. L. Coolidge -- Euler's vision of a general partial differential calculus for a generalized kind of function / Jesper Lutzen -- Euler and the fundamental theory of algebra / William Dunham -- Euler and differentials / Anthony P. Ferzola -- Euler and quadratic reciprocity / Harold M. Edwards |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- History.
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Mathematics. |
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History. |
| Added Author |
Anderson, Marlow, 1950-
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Katz, Victor J.
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Wilson, Robin J.
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| ISBN |
0883855461 hardback |
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