Fascinating and highly readable, this book recounts the history of mathematics as revealed in the lives and writings of the most distinguished practitioners of the art: Archimedes, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, Leibniz, Euler, Gauss, Hamilton, Einstein, and many more. Author Stuart Hollingdale introduces and explains the roles of these gifted and often colourful figures in the development of mathematics as well as the ways in which their work relates to mathematics as a whole.
Although the emphasis in this absorbing survey is primarily biographical, Hollingdale also discusses major historical themes and explains new ideas and techniques. No specialized mathematical knowledge on the part of the reader is assumed. Superbly informative, this volume offers an accessible, interesting guide to one of the pillars of modern science, and to a supremely important aspect of human culture through the ages.
By:
Stuart Hollingdale Imprint: Dover Country of Publication: United States Dimensions:
Height: 213mm,
Width: 139mm,
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 555g ISBN:9780486450070 ISBN 10: 0486450074 Series:Dover Books on Mathema 1.4tics Pages: 439 Publication Date:19 July 2011 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Unspecified
1. The beginnings 2. Early Greek mathematics 3. Euclid and Apollonius 4. Archimedes and the later Hellenistic period 5. The long interlude 6. The Renaissance 7. Descartes, Fermat and Pascal 8. Newton 9. Newton's Principia 10. Newton's circle 11. Leibniz 12. Euler 13. D'Alembert and his contemporaries 14. Gauss 15. Hamilton and Boole 16. Dedekind and Cantor 17. Einstein Appendices References Index
