The history of mathematics : a brief course / Roger Cooke.
Pubblicazione:
New York : J. Wiley & sons, c1997.
Descrizione fisica:
XVII, 530 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. Pt. 1. Early Western mathematics: 1. Origins 2. Ancient Egyptian mathematics 3. Mesopotamia 4. The early Greeks 5. The Euclidean synthesis 6. Archimedes and Apollonius 7. Hellenistic mathematical science 8. Mathematics in the Roman empire. Pt. 2. Other mathematical traditions: 9. The mathematics of Hindus 10. Chinese mathematics 11. Korea and Japan 12. Islamic mathematics. Pt. 3. Modern mathematics: 13. Medieval Europe 14. The Renaissance 15. The calculus 16. Seventeenth-century mathematics 17. Beyond the calculus 18. Modern mathematical science 19. Contemporary mathematics. Answers to selected exercises. Index
