Who gave you the epsilon? and other tales of mathematical history / [electronic resource] :
Who gave you the epsilon? & other tales of mathematical history
edited by Marlow Anderson, Victor Katz, Robin Wilson.
- Washington, D.C. : Mathematical Association of America, c2009.
- x, 431 p. : ill.
- Spectrum series .
- MAA spectrum. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Who gave you the epsilon? : Cauchy and the origins of rigorous calculus / Evolution of the function concept : a brief survey / S. Kovalevsky : a mathematical lesson / Highlights in the history of spectral theory / Alan Turing and the central limit theorem / Why did George Green write his essay of 1828 on electricity and magnetism? / Connectivity and smoke-rings : Green's second identity in its first fifty years / The history of Stokes' theorem / The mathematical collaboration of M.L. Cartwright and J.E. Littlewood / Dr. David Harold Blackwell, African American pioneer / Gauss and the non-Euclidean geometry / History of the parallel postulate / The rise and fall of projective geometry / Notes on the history of geometrical ideas / A note on the history of the Cantor set and Cantor function / Evolution of the topological concept of "connected" / A brief, subjective history of homology and homotopy theory in this century / The origins of modern axiomatics : Pasch to Peano / C.S. Pierce's philosophy of infinite sets / On the development of logics between the two world wars / Dedekind's theorem : [square root of 2] x [square root of 3] = [square root of 6] / Hamilton's discovery of quaternions / Hamilton, Rodrigues, and the quaternion scandal / Building an international reputation : the case of J.J. Sylvester (1814-1897) / The foundation period in the history of group theory / The evolution of group theory : a brief survey / The search for finite simple groups / Genius and biographers : the fictionalization of Evariste Galois / Hermann Grassmann and the creation of linear algebra / The roots of commutative algebra in algebraic number theory / Eisenstein's misunderstood geometric proof of the quadratic reciprocity theorem / Waring's problem / A history of the prime number theorem / A hundred years of prime numbers / The Indian mathematician Ramanujan / Emmy Noether / "A marvelous proof" / The International Congress of Mathematicians / A popular account of some new fields of thought in mathematics / A half-century of mathematics / Mathematics at the turn of the millennium / Judith V. Grabiner -- Israel Kleiner -- Karen D. Rappaport -- L.A. Steen -- S.L. Zabell -- I. Grattan-Guinness -- Thomas Archibald -- Victor J. Katz -- Shawnee L. McMurran and James J. Tattersall -- Nkechi Agwu, Luella Smith and Aissatou Barry -- George Bruce Halsted -- Florence P. Lewis -- J.L. Coolidge -- Dan Pedoe -- Julian F. Fleron -- R.L. Wilder -- Peter Hilton -- H.C. Kennedy -- Joseph W. Dauben -- I. Grattan-Guinness -- David Fowler -- B.L. van der Waerden -- Simon L. Altmann -- Karen Hunger Parshall and Eugene Seneta -- Josephine E. Burns -- Israel Kleiner -- Joseph A. Gallian -- Tony Rothman -- Desmond Fearnley-Sander -- Israel Kleiner -- Reinhard C. Laubenbacher and David J. Pengelley -- Charles Small -- L.J. Goldstein -- Paul T. Bateman and Harold G. Diamond -- G.H. Hardy -- Clark H. Kimberling -- Fernando Q. Gouvea -- George Bruce Halsted -- G.A. Miller -- Hermann Weyl -- Philip A. Griffiths. [Pt. 1.] Analysis -- [pt. 2.] Geometry, topology and foundations -- [pt. 3.] Algebra and number theory -- [pt. 4.] Surveys --
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