Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times

Author: Morris Kline
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195061373
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 439

Book Description
Traces the development of mathematics from its beginnings in Babylonia and ancient Egypt to the work of Riemann and Godel in modern times.

Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times:

Author: Morris Kline
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195061365
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 462

Book Description
This comprehensive history traces the development of mathematical ideas and the careers of the men responsible for them. Volume 1 looks at the discipline's origins in Babylon and Egypt, the creation of geometry and trigonometry by the Greeks, and the role of mathematics in the medieval and early modern periods. Volume 2 focuses on calculus, the rise of analysis in the nineteenth century, and the number theories of Dedekind and Dirichlet. The concluding volume covers the revival of projective geometry, the emergence of abstract algebra, the beginnings of topology, and the influence of Gödel on recent mathematical study.

Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times: Volume 1

Author: Morris Kline
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195061352
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 434

Book Description
Traces the development of mathematics from its beginnings in Babylonia and ancient Egypt to the work of Riemann and Godel in modern times.

Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times, Volume 3

Author: Morris Kline
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199840431
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 440

Book Description
This comprehensive history traces the development of mathematical ideas and the careers of the men responsible for them. Volume 1 looks at the disciplines origins in Babylon and Egypt, the creation of geometry and trigonometry by the Greeks, and the role of mathematics in the medieval and early modern periods. Volume 2 focuses on calculus, the rise of analysis in the 19th century, and the number theories of Dedekind and Dirichlet. The concluding volume covers the revival of projective geometry, the emergence of abstract algebra, the beginnings of topology, and the influence of Godel on recent mathematical study.

Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times

Author: Morris Kline
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199840427
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 480

Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times, Volume 1

Author: Morris Kline
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199770468
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 434

Book Description
The major creations and developments in mathematics from the beginnings in Babylonia and Egypt through the first few decades of the twentieth century are presented with clarity and precision in this comprehensive historical study.

Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra

Author: Jacob Klein
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486319814
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description
Important study focuses on the revival and assimilation of ancient Greek mathematics in the 13th-16th centuries, via Arabic science, and the 16th-century development of symbolic algebra. 1968 edition. Bibliography.

Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times

Author: Morris Kline
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 1268

Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times: Volume 1

Author: Morris Kline
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195061352
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 434

Book Description
Traces the development of mathematics from its beginnings in Babylonia and ancient Egypt to the work of Riemann and Godel in modern times.

Mathematics in Western Culture

Author: Morris Kline
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195345452
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 513

Book Description
This book gives a remarkably fine account of the influences mathematics has exerted on the development of philosophy, the physical sciences, religion, and the arts in Western life.