Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Mathematics

Pirmais vāks
MAA, 2007. gada 2. aug. - 355 lappuses
The first half of Calculus Gems, entitled Brief Lives, is a biological history of mathematics from the earliest times to the late nineteenth century. The author shows that science-and mathematics in particular-is something that people do, and not merely a mass of observed data and abstract theory. He demonstrates the profound connections that join mathematics to the history of philosophy and also to the broader intellectual and social history of Western Civilization. The second half of the book contains nuggets that Simmons has collected from number theory, geometry, science, etc., which he has used in his mathematics classes. G.H. Hardy once said, "A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patters. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas." This part of the book contains a wide variety of these patterns, arranged in an order roughly corresponding to the order of the ideas in most calculus courses. Some of the sections even have a few problems. Professor Simmons tells us in the preface of Calculus Gems: "I hold the naive but logically impeccable view that there are only two kinds of students in our colleges and universities; those who are attracted to mathematics, and those who are not yet attracted, but might be. My intended audience embraces both types." The overall aim of the book is to answer the question, "What is mathematics for?" With its inevitable answer, "To delight the mind and help us understand the world."
 

Saturs

A
4
B
5
B
11
B
17
B
23
Pappus fourth century A D
57
Hypatia A D 370?415
62
Kepler 15711630
69
Huygens 16291695
125
Newton 16421727
131
Leibniz 16461716
141
The Bernoulli Brothers James 16541705 John 16671748
158
Gauss 17771855
175
Cauchy 17891857
185
Dirichlet 18051859
191
Chebyshev 18211894
197

Descartes 15961650
84
Mersenne 15881648
93
Cavalieri 15981647
106
Torricelli 16081647
113
Pascal 16231662
119
Weierstrass 18151897
207
Part B Memorable Mathematics
215
Answers to Problems
345
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