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Excursions in the history of mathematics
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | Excursions in the history of mathematics / Israel Kleiner |
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[Basel], New York, Dordrecht, Heidelberg [etc.] :
BirkhÉauser
, cop. 2012 Springer |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (xxi, 347 p.) |
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Excursions in the history of mathematics |
- A. Number theory. 1. Highlights in the history of number theory: 1700 BC-2008
- 2. Fermat: The founder of modern number theory
- 3. Fermat's last theorem: from Fermat to Wiles
- B. Calculus/analysis. 4. A history of the infinitely small and the infinitely large in calculus, with remarks for the teacher
- 5. A brief history of the function concept
- 6. More on the history of functions, with remarks on teaching
- C. Proof. 7. Highlights in the Practice of Proof: 1600 BC-2009
- 8. Paradoxes: What are they Good for?
- 9. Principle of Continuity: sixteenth-nineteenth centuries
- 10. Proof: A many-splendored thing
- D. Courses inspired by history. 11. Numbers as a source of mathematical ideas
- 12. History of complex numbers, with a moral for teachers
- 13. A history-of-mathematics course for teachers, based on great quotations
- 14. Famous problems in mathematics
- E. Brief biographies of selected mathematicians. The biographies