William Dunham

The Mathematical Universe

An Alphabetical Journey Through the Great Proofs, Problems, and Personalities

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Produktbeschreibung

"Dunham writes for nonspecialists, and they will enjoy his piquant anecdotes and amusing asides -- Booklist "Artfully, Dunham conducts a tour of the mathematical universe... he believes these ideas to be accessible to the audience he wants to reach, and he writes so that they are.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9780471176619
• ISBN-10: 0471176613
• Artikelnr.: 21296606

Autorenporträt

WILLIAM DUNHAM, Ph.D., is the Truman Koehler Professor ofMathematics at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Theauthor of the acclaimed Journey Through Genius, he was awarded the1993 George Pólya Award of the Mathematical Association ofAmerica for excellence in expository writing about mathematics. Heis also the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for theHumanities.

Inhaltsangabe

Arithmetic.

Bernoulli Trials.

Circle.

Differential Calculus.

Euler.

Fermat.

Greek Geometry.

Hypotenuse.

Isoperimetric Problem.

Justification.

Knighted Newton.

Lost Leibniz.

Mathematical Personality.

Natural Logarithm.

Origins.

Prime Number Theorem.

Quotient.

Russell's Paradox.

Spherical Surface.

Trisection.

Utility.

Venn Diagram.

Where Are the Women?

X-Y Plane.

Z.

Afterword.

Notes.

Index.