Sherlock Holmes in Babylon : 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:

Spectrum, 2638-9045 ; v. 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--History.

Mathematics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 387 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits)

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Mathematical Association of America, c2004.

System Details:

Mode of access : World Wide Web

Contents:

Introduction Foreword Sherlock Holmes in Babylon, R. Creighton Buck Words and Pictures: New Light on Plimpton 322, Eleanor Robson Mathematics, 600 B.C.-600 A.D., Max Dehn Diophantus of Alexandria, J. D. Swift Hypatia of Alexandria, A. W. Richeson Hypatia and Her Mathematics, Michael A. B. Deakin The Evolution of Mathematics in Ancient China, Frank Swetz Liu Hui and the First Golden Age of Chinese Mathematics, Philip D. Straffin, Jr. Number Systems of the North American Indians, W. C. Eells The Number System of the Mayas, A. W. Richeson Before The Conquest, Marcia Ascher Afterword Foreword The Discovery of the Series Formula for $\pi $ by Leibniz, Gregory and Nilakantha, Ranjan Roy Ideas of Calculus in Islam and India, Victor J. Katz Was Calculus Invented in India?, David Bressoud An Early Iterative Method for the Determination of sin $1^\circ $, Farhad Riahi Leonardo of Pisa and his Liber Quadratorum, R. B. McClenon The Algorists vs. the Abacists: An Ancient Controversy on the Use of Calculators, Barbara E. Reynolds Sidelights on the Cardan-Tartaglia Controversy, Martin A. Nordgaard Reading Bombelli's $x$-purgated Algebra, Abraham Arcavi and Maxim Bruckheimer The First Work on Mathematics Printed in the New World, David Eugene Smith Afterword Foreword An Application of Geography to Mathematics: History of the Integral of the Secant, V. Frederick Rickey and Philip M. Tuchinsky Some Historical Notes on the Cycloid, E. A. Whitman Descartes and Problem-Solving, Judith Grabiner René Descartes' Curve-Drawing Devices: Experiments in the Relations Between Mechanical Motion and Symbolic Language, David Dennis Certain Mathematical Achievements of James Gregory, Max Dehn and E. D. Hellinger The Changing Concept of Change: The Derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass, Judith V. Grabiner The Crooked Made Straight: Roberval and Newton on Tangents, Paul R. Wolfson On the Discovery of the Logarithmic Series and Its Development in England up to Cotes, Josef Ehrenfried Hofmann Isaac Newton: Man, Myth, and Mathematics, V. Frederick Rickey Reading the Master: Newton and the Birth of Celestial Mechanics, Bruce Pourciau Newton as an Originator of Polar Coordinates, C. B. Boyer Newton's Method for Resolving Affected Equations, Chris Christensen A Contribution of Leibniz to the History of Complex Numbers, R. B. McClenon Functions of a Curve: Leibniz's Original Notion of Functions and Its Meaning for the Parabola, David Dennis and Jere Confrey Afterword Foreword Brook Taylor and the Mathematical Theory of Linear Perspective, P. S. Jones Was Newton's Calculus a Dead End? The Continental Influence of Maclaurin's Treatise of Fluxions, Judith Grabiner Discussion of Fluxions: from Berkeley to Woodhouse, Florian Cajori The Bernoullis and the Harmonic Series, William Dunham

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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ISBN:

9781614445036 (online)

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