Who gave you the epsilon? : and other tales of mathematical history / edited by Marlow Anderson, Victor Katz, Robin Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Marlow, 1950-

Katz, Victor J.

Wilson, Robin J.

Series:

MAA spectrum

Spectrum, 2638-9045 ; v. 63

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--History.

Mathematics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 431 pages)

Other Title:

Who gave you the epsilon? & other tales of mathematical history

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Mathematical Association of America, c2009.

System Details:

Mode of access : World Wide Web

Contents:

Foreword Who Gave You the Epsilon? Cauchy and the Origins of Rigorous Calculus, Judith V. Grabiner Evolution of the Function Concept: A Brief Survey, Israel Kleiner S. Kovalevsky: A Mathematical Lesson, Karen D. Rappaport Highlights in the History of Spectral Theory, L. A. Steen Alan Turing and the Central Limit Theorem, S. L. Zabell Why did George Green Write his Essay of 1828 on Electricity and Magnetism?, I. Grattan-Guinness Connectivity and Smoke-Rings: Green's Second Identity in its First Fifty Years, Thomas Archibald The History of Stokes' Theorem, Victor J. Katz The Mathematical Collaboration of M. L. Cartwright and J. E. Littlewood, Shawnee L. McMurran and James J. Tattersall Dr. David Harold Blackwell, African American Pioneer, Nkechi Agwu, Luella Smith and Aissatou Barry Afterword Foreword Gauss and the Non-Euclidean Geometry, George Bruce Halsted History of the Parallel Postulate, Florence P. Lewis The Rise and Fall of Projective Geometry, J. L. Coolidge Notes on the History of Geometrical Ideas, Dan Pedoe A note on the history of the Cantor set and Cantor function, Julian F. Fleron Evolution of the Topological Concept of "Connected", R. L. Wilder A Brief, Subjective History of Homology and Homotopy Theory in this Century, Peter Hilton The Origins of Modern Axiomatics: Pasch to Peano, H. C. Kennedy C. S. Peirce's Philosophy of Infinite Sets, Joseph W. Dauben On the Development of Logics between the two World Wars, I. Grattan-Guinness Dedekind's Theorem: $\sqrt {2}\times \sqrt {3}=\sqrt {6}$, David Fowler Afterword Foreword Hamilton's Discovery of Quaternions, B. L. van der Waerden Hamilton, Rodrigues, and the Quaternion Scandal, Simon L. Altmann Building an International Reputation: The Case of J. J. Sylvester (1814-1897), Karen Hunger Parshall and Eugene Seneta The Foundation Period in the History of Group Theory, Josephine E. Burns The Evolution of Group Theory: A Brief Survey, Israel Kleiner The Search for Finite Simple Groups, Joseph A. Gallian Genius and Biographers: The Fictionalization of Evariste Galois, Tony Rothman Hermann Grassmann and the Creation of Linear Algebra, Desmond Fearnley-Sander The Roots of Commutative Algebra in Algebraic Number Theory, Israel Kleiner Eisenstein's Misunderstood Geometric Proof of the Quadratic Reciprocity Theorem, Reinhard C. Laubenbacher and David J. Pengelley Waring's Problem, Charles Small A History of the Prime Number Theorem, L. J. Goldstein A Hundred Years of Prime Numbers, Paul T. Bateman and Harold G. Diamond The Indian Mathematician Ramanujan, G. H. Hardy Emmy Noether, Clark H. Kimberling "A Marvelous Proof," Fernando Q. Gouvêa Afterword Foreword The International Congress of Mathematicians, George Bruce Halsted A Popular Account of Some New Fields of Thought in Mathematics, G. A. Miller

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society. 2012

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