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Ancient mathematics. Sherlock Holmes in Babylon / R. Creighton Buck --
Words and pictures: new light on Plimpton 322 / Eleanor Robson --
Mathematics, 600 B.C.-600 A.D. / Max Dehn --
Diophantus of Alexandria / J.D. Swift --
Hypatia of Alexandria / A.W. Richeson --
Hypatia and her mathematics / Michael A.B. Deakin --
The evolution of mathematics in ancient China / Frank Swetz --
Liu Hui and the first golden age of Chinese mathematics / Philip D. Straffin, Jr. --
Number systems of the North American Indians / W.C. Eells --
The number system of the Mayas / A.W. Richeson --
Before the conquest / Marcia Ascher --
Medieval and renaissance mathematics. The discovery of the series formula for [pi] by Leibniz, Gregory and Nilakantha / Ranjan Roy --
Ideas of calculus in Islam and India / Victor J. Katz --
Was calculus invented in India? / David Bressoud --
An early iterative method for the determinationof sin 1° / Farhad Riahi. Leonardo of Pisa and his Liber Quadratorum / R.B. McClenon --
The algorists vs. the abacists: an ancient controversy on the use of calculators / Barbara E. Reynolds --
Sidelights on the Cardan-Tartaglia controversy / Martin A. Nordgaard --
Reading Bombelli's x-purgated algebra / Abraham Arcavi and Maxim Bruckheimer --
The first work on mathematics printed in the New World / David Eugene Smith --
The seventeenth century. An application of geography to mathematics: history of the integral of the secant / V. Frederick Rickey and Philip M. Tuchinsky --
Some historical notes on the cycloid / E.A. Whitman --
Descartes and the problem-solving / Judith Grabiner --
René Descartes' curve-drawing devices: experiments in the relations between mechanical motion and symbolic language / David Dennis --
Certain mathematical achievements of James Gregory / Max Dehn and E.D. Hellinger --
The changing concept of change: the derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass / Judith V. Grabiner. The crooked made straight: Roberval and Newton on tangents / Paul R. Wolfson --
On the discovery of the logarithmic series and its development in England up to Cotes / Josef Ehrenfried Hofmann --
Isaac Newton: man, myth and mathematics / V. Frederick Rickey --
Reading the master: Newton and the birth of celestial mechanics / Bruce Pourciau --
Newton as an originator of polar coordinates / C.B. Boyer --
Newton's method for resolving affected equations / Chris Christensen --
A contribution of Leibniz to the history of complex numbers / R.B. McClenon --
Functions of a curve: Leibniz's original notion of functions / David Dennis and Jere Confrey --
The eighteenth century. Brook Taylor and the mathematical theory of linear perspectives / P.S. Jones --
Was Newton's calculus a dead end? The continental influence of Maclaurin's treatise of fluxions / Judith Grabiner --
Discussion of fluxions: from Berkeley to Woodhouse / Florian Cajori. The Bernoullis and the harmonic series / William Dunham --
Leonhard Euler 1707-1783 / J.J. Burckhardt --
The number e / J.L. Coolidge --
Euler's vision of a general partial differential calculus for a generalized kind of function / Jesper Lützen --
Euler and the fundamental theorem of algebra / William Dunham --
Euler and differentials / Anthony P. Ferzola --
Euler and quadratic reciprocity / Harold M. Edwards.

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387

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Table of Contents

Ancient mathematics. Sherlock Holmes in Babylon / R. Creighton Buck
Words and pictures: new light on Plimpton 322 / Eleanor Robson
Mathematics, 600 B.C.-600 A.D. / Max Dehn
Diophantus of Alexandria / J.D. Swift
Hypatia of Alexandria / A.W. Richeson
Hypatia and her mathematics / Michael A.B. Deakin
The evolution of mathematics in ancient China / Frank Swetz
Liu Hui and the first golden age of Chinese mathematics / Philip D. Straffin, Jr.
Number systems of the North American Indians / W.C. Eells
The number system of the Mayas / A.W. Richeson
Before the conquest / Marcia Ascher
Medieval and renaissance mathematics. The discovery of the series formula for [pi] by Leibniz, Gregory and Nilakantha / Ranjan Roy
Ideas of calculus in Islam and India / Victor J. Katz
Was calculus invented in India? / David Bressoud
An early iterative method for the determinationof sin 1⁰ / Farhad Riahi
-
Leonardo of Pisa and his Liber Quadratorum / R.B. McClenon
The algorists vs. the abacists: an ancient controversy on the use of calculators / Barbara E. Reynolds
Sidelights on the Cardan-Tartaglia controversy / Martin A. Nordgaard
Reading Bombelli's x-purgated algebra / Abraham Arcavi and Maxim Bruckheimer
The first work on mathematics printed in the New World / David Eugene Smith
The seventeenth century. An application of geography to mathematics: history of the integral of the secant / V. Frederick Rickey and Philip M. Tuchinsky
Some historical notes on the cycloid / E.A. Whitman
Descartes and the problem-solving / Judith Grabiner
René Descartes' curve-drawing devices: experiments in the relations between mechanical motion and symbolic language / David Dennis
Certain mathematical achievements of James Gregory / Max Dehn and E.D. Hellinger
The changing concept of change: the derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass / Judith V. Grabiner
-
The crooked made straight: Roberval and Newton on tangents / Paul R. Wolfson
On the discovery of the logarithmic series and its development in England up to Cotes / Josef Ehrenfried Hofmann
Isaac Newton: man, myth and mathematics / V. Frederick Rickey
Reading the master: Newton and the birth of celestial mechanics / Bruce Pourciau
Newton as an originator of polar coordinates / C.B. Boyer
Newton's method for resolving affected equations / Chris Christensen
A contribution of Leibniz to the history of complex numbers / R.B. McClenon
Functions of a curve: Leibniz's original notion of functions / David Dennis and Jere Confrey
The eighteenth century. Brook Taylor and the mathematical theory of linear perspectives / P.S. Jones
Was Newton's calculus a dead end? The continental influence of Maclaurin's treatise of fluxions / Judith Grabiner
Discussion of fluxions: from Berkeley to Woodhouse / Florian Cajori
-
The Bernoullis and the harmonic series / William Dunham
Leonhard Euler 1707-1783 / J.J. Burckhardt
The number e / J.L. Coolidge
Euler's vision of a general partial differential calculus for a generalized kind of function / Jesper Lützen
Euler and the fundamental theorem of algebra / William Dunham
Euler and differentials / Anthony P. Ferzola
Euler and quadratic reciprocity / Harold M. Edwards.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Washington, DC

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
510.9
Library of Congress
QA21 .S48 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 387 p. :
Number of pages
387

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3698735M
Internet Archive
sherlockholmesba00vkat
ISBN 10
0883855461
LCCN
2003113541
OCLC/WorldCat
54028528
Wikidata
Q120892530
Goodreads
1752747

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