An Episodic History of Mathematics Hardback: Mathematical Culture through Problem Solving (Mathematical Association of America Textbooks) - Hardcover

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9780883857663: An Episodic History of Mathematics Hardback: Mathematical Culture through Problem Solving (Mathematical Association of America Textbooks)

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ISBN 10: 0883857669 ISBN 13: 9780883857663

Verlag: The Mathematical Association of America, 2010

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An overview of the history of mathematics which introduces the genesis of mathematical ideas. Covering mathematical traditions from ancient times to the twentieth century, this book gives readers a sense of mathematical culture and history. Each chapter concludes with problems designed to create new avenues for exploration into the subject.

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An Episodic History of Mathematics will acquaint students and readers with mathematical language, thought, and mathematical life by means of historically important mathematical vignettes. It will also serve to help prospective teachers become more familiar with important ideas of in the history of mathematics—both classical and modern.Contained within are wonderful and engaging stories and anecdotes about Pythagoras and Galois and Cantor and Poincar�, which let readers indulge themselves in whimsy, gossip, and learning. The mathematicians treated here were complex individuals who led colorful and fascinating lives, and did fascinating mathematics. They remain interesting to us as people and as scientists.This history of mathematics is also an opportunity to have some fun because the focus in this text is also on the practical—getting involved with the mathematics and solving problems. This book is unabashedly mathematical. In the course of reading this book, the neophyte will become involved with mathematics by working on the same problems that, for instance, Zeno and Pythagoras and Descartes and Fermat and Riemann worked on.This is a book to be read, therefore, with pencil and paper in hand, and a calculator or computer close by. All will want to experiment; to try things; and become a part of the mathematical process.

Biograf�a del autor

Steven G. Krantz received his BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has taught at UCLA, Princeton University, Penn State University, and Washington University in St Louis. He has directed 17 Ph.D. theses, authored over 50 books, and over 150 scholarly papers. He has served on several editorial boards, and is Editor-in-Chief of three journals. Krantz is the holder of the Chauvenet Prize, the Beckenbach Book Award, and the Kemper Foundation Award.

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