History Mathematics 3e
暫譯: 數學史 第三版

Boyer, Carl B., Merzbach, Uta C.

  • 出版商: Wiley
  • 出版日期: 2011-01-18
  • 售價: $1,660
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,577
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 688
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 0470525487
  • ISBN-13: 9780470525487
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商品描述

The updated new edition of the classic and comprehensive guide to the history of mathematics

For more than forty years, A History of Mathematics has been the reference of choice for those looking to learn about the fascinating history of humankind's relationship with numbers, shapes, and patterns. This revised edition features up-to-date coverage of topics such as Fermat's Last Theorem and the Poincar Conjecture, in addition to recent advances in areas such as finite group theory and computer-aided proofs.

  • Distills thousands of years of mathematics into a single, approachable volume
  • Covers mathematical discoveries, concepts, and thinkers, from Ancient Egypt to the present
  • Includes up-to-date references and an extensive chronological table of mathematical and general historical developments.

Whether you're interested in the age of Plato and Aristotle or Poincar and Hilbert, whether you want to know more about the Pythagorean theorem or the golden mean, A History of Mathematics is an essential reference that will help you explore the incredible history of mathematics and the men and women who created it.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

經典且全面的數學歷史指南的更新新版本

四十多年來,A History of Mathematics 一直是那些希望了解人類與數字、形狀和模式之間迷人關係的首選參考書。這個修訂版涵蓋了最新的主題,如費馬最後定理和龐加萊猜想 以及有限群論和計算機輔助證明等領域的最新進展。

  • 將數千年的數學精華提煉成一本易於接觸的書籍
  • 涵蓋從古埃及到現代的數學發現、概念和思想家
  • 包括最新的參考資料和廣泛的數學及一般歷史發展的年表。

無論您對柏拉圖和亞里士多德的時代感興趣,還是對龐加萊和希爾伯特的時代感興趣,無論您想了解更多有關畢氏定理或黃金比例的知識,A History of Mathematics 都是一本必備的參考書,將幫助您探索數學的驚人歷史以及創造它的男女。

作者簡介

UTA C. MERZBACH is Curator Emeritus of Mathematics at the Smithsonian Institution and Director of the LHM Institute.

The late CARL B. BOYER was a professor of mathematics at Brooklyn College and the author of several classic works on the history of mathematics.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

UTA C. MERZBACH 是史密森學會數學的名譽策展人及 LHM Institute 的主任。

已故的 CARL B. BOYER 是布魯克林學院的數學教授,也是幾部數學史經典著作的作者。