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Main subject categories: • Philosophy of Mathematics • Development of Mathematics • History of Mathematics • Mathematics in General • Mathematics for NonmathematiciansChapter Headings: • 1. Origins of Formal Structure • 2. From Whole Numbers to Rational Numbers • 3. Geometry • 4. Real Numbers • 5. Functions, Transformations, and Groups • 6. Concepts of Calculus • 7. Linear Algebra • 8. Forms of Space • 9. Mechanics • 10. Complex Analysis and Topology • 11. Sets, Logic, and Categories • 12. The Mathematical Network • Bibliography • List of Symbols • IndexFrom the Preface This book records my efforts over the past four years to capture in words a description of the form and function of Mathematics, as a background for the Philosophy of Mathematics. My efforts have been encouraged by lectures that I have given at Heidelberg under the auspices of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, at the University of Chicago, and at the University of Minnesota, the latter under the auspices of the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications.Jean Benabou has carefully read the entire manuscript and has offered incisive comments. George Glauberman, Carlos Kenig, Christopher Mulvey, R. Narasimhan, a

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Author

Saunders Mac Lane, wiskundige

Publisher

Springer Spektrum. in Springer-Verlag GmbH

Published

1986

Language

EN

ISBN

9781461293408

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Mathematics, Others, Stem