A History Of Mathematics, Third Edition 9780470525487

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  • 版 次:1
  • 页 数:668
  • 字 数:
  • 印刷时间:2011年01月01日
  • 开 本:16开
  • 纸 张:胶版纸
  • 包 装:平装
  • 是否套装:否
  • 国际标准书号ISBN:9780470525487
作者:Carl B. Boyer 著出版社:Wiley出版时间:2011年01月 
内容简介
  The updated new edition of the classic and comprehensive guideto the history of mathematics
For more than forty years, A History of Mathematics has been thereference of choice for those looking to learn about thefascinating history of humankind’s relationship with numbers,shapes, and patterns. This revised edition features up-to-datecoverage of topics such as Fermat’s Last Theorem and the PoincaréConjecture, in addition to recent advances in areas such as finitegroup theory and computer-aided proofs.
  Distills thousands of years of mathematics into a single,approachable volume
  Covers mathematical discoveries, concepts, and thinkers, fromAncient Egypt to the present
  Includes up-to-date references and an extensive chronologicaltable of mathematical and general historical developments.
作者简介

  Uta C. Merzbach is Curator Emeritus of Mathematics at the Smithsonian Institution and Director of the LHM Institute
  The late Carl B. Boyer was a professor of Mathematics at Brooklyn College and the author of several classic works on the history of mathematics.

目  录
Foreword by Isaac Asimov.
Preface to the Third Edition.
Preface to the Second Edition.
Preface to the First Edition.
1 Traces.
Concepts and Relationships.
Early Number Bases.
Number Language and Counting.
Spatial Relationships.
2 Ancient Egypt.
The Era and the Sources.
Numbers and Fractions.
Arithmetic Operations.
"Heap" Problems.

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