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A Concise History of Mathematics

STRUIK, Dirk J. - Personal Name;

This compact, well-written history — first published in 1948, and now in its fourth revised edition — describes the main trends in the development of all fields of mathematics from the first available records to the middle of the 20th century. Students, researchers, historians, specialists — in short, everyone with an interest in mathematics — will find it engrossing and stimulating.
Beginning with the ancient Near East, the author traces the ideas and techniques developed in Egypt, Babylonia, China, and Arabia, looking into such manuscripts as the Egyptian Papyrus Rhind, the Ten Classics of China, and the Siddhantas of India. He considers Greek and Roman developments from their beginnings in Ionian rationalism to the fall of Constantinople; covers medieval European ideas and Renaissance trends; analyzes 17th- and 18th-century contributions; and offers an illuminating exposition of 19th century concepts. Every important figure in mathematical history is dealt with — Euclid, Archimedes, Diophantus, Omar Khayyam, Boethius, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, Leibniz, Fourier, Gauss, Riemann, Cantor, and many others. For this latest edition, Dr. Struik has both revised and updated the existing text, and also added a new chapter on the mathematics of the first half of the 20th century. Concise coverage is given to set theory, the influence of relativity and quantum theory, tensor calculus, the Lebesgue integral, the calculus of variations, and other important ideas and concepts. The book concludes with the beginnings of the computer era and the seminal work of von Neumann, Turing, Wiener, and others.

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BTB Pluit Putri Library (Non Fiction #MSHS Library) 510.9 STR a

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Series Title: -
Call Number: 510.9 STR a
Publisher: USA : Dover Publications., 2022
Collation: 22 cm. + 228 pages; illus
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 9780486602554
Classification: 510.9 STR a
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Edition: 4th Edition
Subject(s): mathematics
9780486602554
DP02730
Specific Detail Info: Pluit Putri Library
Statement of Responsibility: Dirk J Struik

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