TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anderson,Marlow
AU  - Katz,Victor J.
AU  - Wilson,Robin J.
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - Who gave you the epsilon?: and other tales of mathematical history 
T2  - Spectrum series
AV  - QA21 .W336 2009
U1  - 510.9 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Mathematical Association of America
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; [Pt. 1.] Analysis --; Who gave you the epsilon? : Cauchy and the origins of rigorous calculus; Judith V. Grabiner --; Evolution of the function concept : a brief survey; Israel Kleiner --; S. Kovalevsky : a mathematical lesson; Karen D. Rappaport --; Highlights in the history of spectral theory; L.A. Steen --; Alan Turing and the central limit theorem; S.L. Zabell --; Why did George Green write his essay of 1828 on electricity and magnetism?; I. Grattan-Guinness --; Connectivity and smoke-rings : Green's second identity in its first fifty years; Thomas Archibald --; The history of Stokes' theorem; Victor J. Katz --; The mathematical collaboration of M.L. Cartwright and J.E. Littlewood; Shawnee L. McMurran and; James J. Tattersall --; Dr. David Harold Blackwell, African American pioneer; Nkechi Agwu; Luella Smith and; Aissatou Barry --; [pt. 2.] Geometry, topology and foundations --; Gauss and the non-Euclidean geometry; George Bruce Halsted --; History of the parallel postulate; Florence P. Lewis --; The rise and fall of projective geometry; J.L. Coolidge --; Notes on the history of geometrical ideas; Dan Pedoe --; A note on the history of the Cantor set and Cantor function; Julian F. Fleron --; Evolution of the topological concept of "connected"; R.L. Wilder --; A brief, subjective history of homology and homotopy theory in this century; Peter Hilton --; The origins of modern axiomatics : Pasch to Peano; H.C. Kennedy --; C.S. Pierce's philosophy of infinite sets; Joseph W. Dauben --; On the development of logics between the two world wars; I. Grattan-Guinness --; Dedekind's theorem : [square root of 2] x [square root of 3] = [square root of 6]; David Fowler --; [pt. 3.] Algebra and number theory --; Hamilton's discovery of quaternions; B.L. van der Waerden --; Hamilton, Rodrigues, and the quaternion scandal; Simon L. Altmann --; Building an international reputation : the case of J.J. Sylvester (1814-1897); Karen Hunger Parshall and; Eugene Seneta --; The foundation period in the history of group theory; Josephine E. Burns --; The evolution of group theory : a brief survey; Israel Kleiner --; The search for finite simple groups; Joseph A. Gallian --; Genius and biographers : the fictionalization of Evariste Galois; Tony Rothman --; Hermann Grassmann and the creation of linear algebra; Desmond Fearnley-Sander --; The roots of commutative algebra in algebraic number theory; Israel Kleiner --; Eisenstein's misunderstood geometric proof of the quadratic reciprocity theorem; Reinhard C. Laubenbacher and; David J. Pengelley --; Waring's problem; Charles Small --; A history of the prime number theorem; L.J. Goldstein --; A hundred years of prime numbers; Paul T. Bateman and; Harold G. Diamond --; The Indian mathematician Ramanujan; G.H. Hardy --; Emmy Noether; Clark H. Kimberling --; "A marvelous proof"; Fernando Q. Gouvea --; [pt. 4.] Surveys --; The International Congress of Mathematicians; George Bruce Halsted --; A popular account of some new fields of thought in mathematics; G.A. Miller --; A half-century of mathematics; Hermann Weyl --; Mathematics at the turn of the millennium; Philip A. Griffiths; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
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