Boyer, Carl B. (Carl Benjamin), 1906-1976.
A history of mathematics / Carl B. Boyer.
— New York : Wiley, c1968. xv, 717 p. : il., retrs. ; 24 cm.
Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.
Primitive origins — Egypt — Mesopotamia — Ionia and the Pythagoreans — The heroic age — The age of Plato and Aristotle — Euclid of Alexandria — Archimedes of Syracuse — Apollonius of Perga — Greek trigonometry and mensuration — Revival and decline of Greek mathematics — China and India — The Arabic hegemony — Europe in the Middle Ages — The Renaissance — Prelude to modern mathematics — The time of Fermat and Descartes — A transitional period — Newton and Leibniz — The Bernoulli era — The age of Euler — Mathematicians of the French Revolution — The time of Gauss and Cauchy — The heroic age in geometry — The arithmetization of analysis — The rise of abstract algebra — Aspects of the twentieth century.
ISBN 0471093742
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