Description: Turning Points in the History of Mathematics Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): Hardy Grant, Israel Kleiner Format: Paperback Publisher: Birkhauser Boston Inc, United States Imprint: Birkhauser Boston Inc ISBN-13: 9781493932634, 978-1493932634 Synopsis This book explores some of the major turning points in the history of mathematics, ranging from ancient Greece to the present, demonstrating the drama that has often been a part of its evolution. Studying these breakthroughs, transitions, and revolutions, their stumbling-blocks and their triumphs, can help illuminate the importance of the history of mathematics for its teaching, learning, and appreciation. Some of the turning points considered are the rise of the axiomatic method (most famously in Euclid), and the subsequent major changes in it (for example, by David Hilbert); the "wedding," via analytic geometry, of algebra and geometry; the "taming" of the infinitely small and the infinitely large; the passages from algebra to algebras, from geometry to geometries, and from arithmetic to arithmetics; and the revolutions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that resulted from Georg Cantor's creation of transfinite set theory. The origin of each turning point is discussed, along with the mathematicians involved and some of the mathematics that resulted. Problems and projects are included in each chapter to extend and increase understanding of the material. Substantial reference lists are also provided. Turning Points in the History of Mathematics will be a valuable resource for teachers of, and students in, courses in mathematics or its history. The book should also be of interest to anyone with a background in mathematics who wishes to learn more about the important moments in its development.
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Book Title: Turning Points in the History of Mathematics
Number of Pages: 109 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Turning Points in the History of Mathematics
Publisher: Birkhauser Boston INC International Concepts
Publication Year: 2016
Subject: Mathematics, Teaching
Item Height: 235 mm
Item Weight: 1942 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Hardy Grant, Israel Kleiner
Series: Compact Textbooks in Mathematics
Item Width: 155 mm
Format: Paperback
