A history of mathematics
Carl B. Boyer.
New York : Wiley, ©1968.
xv, 717 págs. : ilustraciones, retrs. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0471093742
Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.
Reseña: MathSciNet, 38 #3105
Contenido
- 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.