How It All Began A Thematic History of Mathematics

Informationen zum Autor Dattatray B. Wagh Klappentext Intended for undergraduate mathematics students and teachers, How it All Began provides an introduction to the history of various branches of mathematics, the lives of the mathematicians, and the challenges they faced. This new work explores the great Greek legacy, Indian arithmetic, Integral Calculus, the Analytic Geometry of Rene Descartes, Differential Calculus, the Non-Commutative Algebra of Hamilton, the arithmetization of analysis, and the beginnings of Algebra. Zusammenfassung Intended for undergraduate mathematics students and teachers! this book provides an introduction to the history of the branches of mathematics! the lives of the mathematicians! and the challenges they faced. It explores the great Greek legacy! Indian arithmetic! Integral Calculus! the Analytic Geometry of Rene Descartes! and others. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Preface Chapter 2 The Great Greek Legacy Chapter 3 The Indian Arithmetic: Its Entry and Acceptance in Europe Chapter 4 The Method of Integral Calculus Chapter 5 Analytic Geometry of Rene Descartes Chapter 6 The Method of Differential Calculus Chapter 7 The First Non-Commutative Algebra Chapter 8 Arithmetization of Analysis Chapter 9 Beginnings of Algebra 10 Answers

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Dattatray B. Wagh, Dattatray B Wagh, Wagh Dattatray B.
• Verlag: University Press Of America
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 16.11.2005
• Thema: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Mathematik > Allgemeines, Lexika; Ratgeber
• EAN: 9780761824114
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-2411-4
• Anzahl Seiten: 260
• Themen: SCIENCE / General; MATHEMATICS / General; Mathematics & science; Mathematics and science