A History of Mathematics- From Mesopotamia to Modernity

256 A History ofMathematics 2 1 0 1 –0.5 0 0.5 1 x 1.5 –1 –2 0 0 Fig. 8Graph ofy^2 =x^3 −x. Fig. 9A torus (again); this is the ...

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AChaoticEnd? 257 given until we reach §9. For the present I shall only say that the justification lies in the fact that the huma ...

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258 A History ofMathematics Solutions to exercises These are perhaps unduly hard, but it is almost impossible to find easier one ...

Introduction Picture Credits xiv Why this book? On texts, and on history Examples Historicism and ‘presentism’ Revolutions, par ...

AChaoticEnd? 259 In the casen=4, 2n− 1 =15;z=exp( 2 kπ/ 15 ).Ifk=0,zis of period 1 (fixed), while ifk=5, 10,zis of period 2 (usi ...

Picture Credits The author thanks the following for permission to reproduce figures and illustrations in this text: The Schøyen ...

Conclusion Yesterday all the past. The language of size Spreading to china along the trade-routes; the diffusion Of the counting ...

Introduction Why this book? [M. de Montmort] was working for some time on theHistory of Geometry. Every Science, every Art, shou ...

Conclusion 261 Is the development of algorithms (the word comes by a circuitous route from the name al-Khw ̄arizm ̄i, chapter 5) ...

2AHistory ofMathematics compilations of cut-and-dried knowledge, arranged in the manner indicated by the textbooks. They hadno i ...

262 A History ofMathematics nodding acquaintance with intellectual property law. As in ancient Babylon, the military-industrial ...

Introduction 3 for themselves just how ‘different’ the mathematics of others might appear.^1 Since then, broadly, the textbooks ...

Bibliography Ab ̄uK ̄amil,Shuj ̄a ibn Aslam: The Algebra of Ab ̄uK ̄amil in a commentary by Mordecai Finzi, tr. and ed. Martin L ...

4AHistory ofMathematics have driven me to write this book: The supposed ‘humanization’ of mathematical studies by including his ...

264 Bibliography Bonola, Roberto,Non-Euclidean Geometry: with a supplement containing ‘The Theory of Parallels’ by Nicholas Loba ...

Introduction 5 Examples For a long time I had a strong desire in studying and research in sciences to distinguish some from othe ...

Bibliography 265 Dick, Auguste (tr. H. I. Blocher),Emmy Noether, 1882–1935. Boston, MA, Basel, New York, Stüttgart: Birkhäuser, ...