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245	0	0	_aWho gave you the epsilon? _h[electronic resource] : _band other tales of mathematical history / _cedited by Marlow Anderson, Victor Katz, Robin Wilson.
246	1	4	_aWho gave you the epsilon? & other tales of mathematical history
260			_aWashington, D.C. : _bMathematical Association of America, _cc2009.
300			_ax, 431 p. : _bill.
490	1		_aSpectrum series
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_g[Pt. 1.] Analysis -- _tWho gave you the epsilon? : Cauchy and the origins of rigorous calculus / _rJudith V. Grabiner -- _tEvolution of the function concept : a brief survey / _rIsrael Kleiner -- _tS. Kovalevsky : a mathematical lesson / _rKaren D. Rappaport -- _tHighlights in the history of spectral theory / _rL.A. Steen -- _tAlan Turing and the central limit theorem / _rS.L. Zabell -- _tWhy did George Green write his essay of 1828 on electricity and magnetism? / _rI. Grattan-Guinness -- _tConnectivity and smoke-rings : Green's second identity in its first fifty years / _rThomas Archibald -- _tThe history of Stokes' theorem / _rVictor J. Katz -- _tThe mathematical collaboration of M.L. Cartwright and J.E. Littlewood / _rShawnee L. McMurran and _rJames J. Tattersall -- _tDr. David Harold Blackwell, African American pioneer / _rNkechi Agwu, _rLuella Smith and _rAissatou Barry -- _g[pt. 2.] Geometry, topology and foundations -- _tGauss and the non-Euclidean geometry / _rGeorge Bruce Halsted -- _tHistory of the parallel postulate / _rFlorence P. Lewis -- _tThe rise and fall of projective geometry / _rJ.L. Coolidge -- _tNotes on the history of geometrical ideas / _rDan Pedoe -- _tA note on the history of the Cantor set and Cantor function / _rJulian F. Fleron -- _tEvolution of the topological concept of "connected" / _rR.L. Wilder -- _tA brief, subjective history of homology and homotopy theory in this century / _rPeter Hilton -- _tThe origins of modern axiomatics : Pasch to Peano / _rH.C. Kennedy -- _tC.S. Pierce's philosophy of infinite sets / _rJoseph W. Dauben -- _tOn the development of logics between the two world wars / _rI. Grattan-Guinness -- _tDedekind's theorem : [square root of 2] x [square root of 3] = [square root of 6] / _rDavid Fowler -- _g[pt. 3.] Algebra and number theory -- _tHamilton's discovery of quaternions / _rB.L. van der Waerden -- _tHamilton, Rodrigues, and the quaternion scandal / _rSimon L. Altmann -- _tBuilding an international reputation : the case of J.J. Sylvester (1814-1897) / _rKaren Hunger Parshall and _rEugene Seneta -- _tThe foundation period in the history of group theory / _rJosephine E. Burns -- _tThe evolution of group theory : a brief survey / _rIsrael Kleiner -- _tThe search for finite simple groups / _rJoseph A. Gallian -- _tGenius and biographers : the fictionalization of Evariste Galois / _rTony Rothman -- _tHermann Grassmann and the creation of linear algebra / _rDesmond Fearnley-Sander -- _tThe roots of commutative algebra in algebraic number theory / _rIsrael Kleiner -- _tEisenstein's misunderstood geometric proof of the quadratic reciprocity theorem / _rReinhard C. Laubenbacher and _rDavid J. Pengelley -- _tWaring's problem / _rCharles Small -- _tA history of the prime number theorem / _rL.J. Goldstein -- _tA hundred years of prime numbers / _rPaul T. Bateman and _rHarold G. Diamond -- _tThe Indian mathematician Ramanujan / _rG.H. Hardy -- _tEmmy Noether / _rClark H. Kimberling -- _t"A marvelous proof" / _rFernando Q. Gouvea -- _g[pt. 4.] Surveys -- _tThe International Congress of Mathematicians / _rGeorge Bruce Halsted -- _tA popular account of some new fields of thought in mathematics / _rG.A. Miller -- _tA half-century of mathematics / _rHermann Weyl -- _tMathematics at the turn of the millennium / _rPhilip A. Griffiths.
533			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aMathematics _xHistory.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
700	1		_aAnderson, Marlow, _d1950-
700	1		_aKatz, Victor J.
700	1		_aWilson, Robin J.
710	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
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