The History of Mathematics: A Brief Course

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SUBJECT INDEX 587

Gaussian curvature, 192, 377, 395
Gaussian distribution, 64, 522
Gaussian domain, 458
Gaussian elimination, 405
Gaussian integers, 193, 458
Gebilde, 495
generalized function, 496
Geneva, 86
geodesic, 379, 383
geodesic curvature, 379
geodesy, 192
Geography, 55, 327
geography, 325
Geometria, 329
Geometria organica, 355
geometria situs, 385
Geometria: prima elementa, 342
geometric algebra, 285
geometric progression, 406
Giomatrie, 202, 352, 360, 464
geometry, 8, 26, 41
analytic, 474
Euclidean, 470
hyperbolic, 378
non-Euclidean, 350, 371, 378
solid, 298
George Szekeres Medal, 72
German Mathematical Union, 451
Gesetz der Kanten, 388
GIMPS, 167, 195
Girton College, 88, 93
Goldbach conjecture, 190, 195
golden number, 157
Golden Ratio, 9, 39
Golden Section, 298, 358
Good Will Hunting, 217
googol, 128
googolplex, 128
Gottingen, 72
Gottingen Royal Society, 383
Gottinger Nachrichten, 189
gou, 245
gougu theorem, 245, 248, 266
gram, 532
Grammelogia, 149
graph theory, 9, 210
gravitation, 218
gravitational equation, 385
Great Pyramid, 270, 310
greatest common factor, 164, 169
greatest common measure, 165
Greece, 407
Greek mathematics, 41
Gregorian calendar, 124, 157
Grolier Codex, 37
gross, 114
group, 447, 451
Abelian, 447


abstract, 454
alternating, 459
finite, 457-458
fundamental, 389
homology, 389
locally compact Abelian, 551
Monster, 458
permutation, 459
sporadic, 458
symmetric, 459
group representations, 456-457
Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, 552
Grundlagen der Geometrie, 348
gu, 245
Gwalior, 199
Haab, 122, 125
Hai Dao Suan Jing, 31, 51, 246
Halle, 100
Hamilton, Ontario, 68
Hamming codes, 20
Han Dynasty, 27, 30, 31, 119
Western, 29, 405
Handbook of Political Fallacies, 536
Hannover, 376
Hanoi, 326
Harappa, 21
harmonic analysis, 67
harmonic function, 502, 505
harmonic series, 475
harpedonaptai, 235
Harran, 56
Harvard University, 67, 68, 101, 102, 453
hau computations, 134
Hausdorff space, 393
heat equation, 478
Hebrew calendar, 124
Heidelberg, 89, 146
Heine-Borel theorem, 392
hekat, 134, 210, 239
hemisphere, 42
area, 238
heptagon,55
heptagonal number, 183
Heron's formula, 263, 320
hexagon,298
hexagonal number, 168
hieratic, 34, 116
hieroglyphics, 34, 116, 154
Hijra, 124
Hubert basis theorem, 97
Hindu mathematics, 32
histogram, 87, 529
historical ordering, 8
holes, 8
homogeneous coordinates, 370
homologous curves, 388
homology, 389
homology group, 389
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