A Brief History of Mathematics: A Promenade Through the Civilizations of Our World

Cai, Tianxin

A Brief History of Mathematics: A Promenade Through the Civilizations of Our World
  • 出版商: Birkhauser Boston
  • 出版日期: 2024-07-27
  • 售價: $1,490
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,416
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 344
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031268431
  • ISBN-13: 9783031268434

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This volume, originally published in China and translated into four other languages, presents a fascinating and unique account of the history of mathematics, divided into eight chronologically organized chapters. Tracing the development of mathematics across disparate regions and peoples, with particular emphasis on the relationship between mathematics and civilization, it examines mathematical sources and inspirations leading from Egypt, Babylon and ancient Greece and expanding to include Chinese, Indian and Arabic mathematics, the European Renaissance and the French revolution up through the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Each chapter explores connections among mathematics and cultural elements of the time and place treated, accompanying the reader in a varied and exciting journey through human civilizations. The book contemplates the intersections of mathematics with other disciplines, including the relationship between modern mathematics and modern art, and the resultingapplications, with the aid of images and photographs, often taken by the author, which further enhance the enjoyment for the reader.
Written for a general audience, this book will be of interest to anyone who's studied mathematics in university or even high school, while also benefiting researchers in mathematics and the humanities.

作者簡介

Cai Tianxin was born in Taizhou, in southeastern China in 1963. He received his doctorate in science in 1987 from Shandong University, and currently serves as an outstanding professor at the School of Mathematics at Zhejiang University. In his capacity as a professor of mathematics, Cai proposed a class of Diophantine equations that was hailed as a "truly original contribution" by the British mathematician and recipient of the Fields Medal Alan Baker. He is also a poet, writer, and photographer, who has published more than forty literary and scholarly works, translated variously into more than twenty languages, including seven works translated into English. For his poetical and literary works, Cai was awarded the Naji Naaman Poetry Prize (Beirut) in 2013, and the Kathak Literary Award(Dakar) in 2019. In 2022, he was selected as an influential writer on Dangdang (the Chinese analogue to Amazon.com).

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

蔡天新於1963年出生於中國東南部的台州。他於1987年獲得山東大學的科學博士學位，目前擔任浙江大學數學學院的傑出教授。作為數學教授，蔡提出了一類被英國數學家、菲爾茲獎得主艾倫·貝克（Alan Baker）稱讚為「真正原創貢獻」的丟番圖方程。他同時也是一位詩人、作家和攝影師，已出版四十多部文學和學術著作，並翻譯成二十多種語言，其中七部作品被翻譯成英文。因其詩歌和文學作品，蔡於2013年獲得貝魯特的納吉·納阿曼詩歌獎（Naji Naaman Poetry Prize），以及2019年達喀爾的卡塔克文學獎（Kathak Literary Award）。在2022年，他被選為當當網（中國的亞馬遜）上的影響力作家。

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