Author: Henry Burchard FinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Algebra
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The Number-system of Algebra Treated Theoretically and Historically
Author: Henry Burchard FinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Algebra
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
History and Philosophy of Modern Mathematics
Author: William AsprayPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816615675
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
History and Philosophy of Modern Mathematics was first published in 1988. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The fourteen essays in this volume build on the pioneering effort of Garrett Birkhoff, professor of mathematics at Harvard University, who in 1974 organized a conference of mathematicians and historians of modern mathematics to examine how the two disciplines approach the history of mathematics. In History and Philosophy of Modern Mathematics, William Aspray and Philip Kitcher bring together distinguished scholars from mathematics, history, and philosophy to assess the current state of the field. Their essays, which grow out of a 1985 conference at the University of Minnesota, develop the basic premise that mathematical thought needs to be studied from an interdisciplinary perspective. The opening essays study issues arising within logic and the foundations of mathematics, a traditional area of interest to historians and philosophers. The second section examines issues in the history of mathematics within the framework of established historical periods and questions. Next come case studies that illustrate the power of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of mathematics. The collection closes with a look at mathematics from a sociohistorical perspective, including the way institutions affect what constitutes mathematical knowledge.
The American Mathematical Monthly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Includes section "Recent publications."
Trilogy Of Numbers And Arithmetic - Book 1: History Of Numbers And Arithmetic: An Information Perspective
Author: Mark BurginPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9811236852
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The book is the first in the trilogy which will bring you to the fascinating world of numbers and operations with them. Numbers provide information about myriads of things. Together with operations, numbers constitute arithmetic forming in basic intellectual instruments of theoretical and practical activity of people and offering powerful tools for representation, acquisition, transmission, processing, storage, and management of information about the world.The history of numbers and arithmetic is the topic of a variety of books and at the same time, it is extensively presented in many books on the history of mathematics. However, all of them, at best, bring the reader to the end of the 19th century without including the developments in these areas in the 20th century and later. Besides, such books consider and describe only the most popular classes of numbers, such as whole numbers or real numbers. At the same time, a diversity of new classes of numbers and arithmetic were introduced in the 20th century.This book looks into the chronicle of numbers and arithmetic from ancient times all the way to 21st century. It also includes the developments in these areas in the 20th century and later. A unique aspect of this book is its information orientation of the exposition of the history of numbers and arithmetic.
A Semicentennial History of the American Mathematical Society, 1888-1938
Author: Raymond Clare ArchibaldPublisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 9780821896778
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This volume outlines the history of the AMS in its first fifty years. To download free chapters of this book, click here.
A Century of Mathematics in America
Author: Peter L. DurenPublisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 9780821801307
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
The first section of the book deals with some of the influential mathematics departments in the United States. Functioning as centers of research and training, these departments played a major role in shaping the mathematical life in this country. The second section deals with an extraordinary conference held at Princeton in 1946 to commemorate the university's bicentennial. The influence of women in American mathematics, the burgeoning of differential geometry in the last 50 years, and discussions of the work of von Karman and Weiner are among other topics covered.
The Number-system of Algebra Treated Theoretically and Historically
Author: Henry Burchard FinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Algebra
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Mathematical Magazine
Author: Revue Semestrielle Des Publications Mathematiques
Author: Introduction to the Theory of Fourier's Series and Integrals and the Mathematical Theory of the Conduction of Heat
Author: Horatio Scott CarslawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Definite integrals
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description