A history of mathematics / Carl B. Boyer ; revised by Uta C. Merzbach.
Edizione:
2. ed.
Pubblicazione:
New York : John Wiley & Sons, 1989.
Descrizione fisica:
XVIII, 762 p. ; 23 cm
Contiene:
Indice: 1. Origins; 2. Egypt; 3. Mesopotamia; 4. Ionia and the Pythagoreans; 5. The heroic age; 6. The age of Plato and Aristotle; 7. Euclid of Alexandria; 8. Archimedes of Syracuse; 9. Apollonius of Perga; 10. Greek trigonometry and mensuration; 11. Revival and decline of greek mathematics; 12. China and India; 13. The arabic hegemony; 14. Europe in the Middle Ages; 15. The Renaissance; 16. Prelude to modern mathematics; 17. The time of Fermat and Descartes; 18. A transitional period; 19. Newton and Lebniz; 20. The Bernouilli era; 21. The age of Euler; 22. Mathematicians of the french revolution; 23. The time of Gauss and Cauchy; 24. Geometry; 25. Analysis; 26. Algebra; 27. Poincaré and Hilbert; 28. Aspects of the Twentieth century; General bibliography; Appendix: Chronological table; Index
