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DOVER BOOKS ON MATHEMATICS; Title Page; Copyright Page; To Any Prospective Reader; Table of Contents; CHAPTER 1 - General Prospectus; Necessity for proof; emergence of mathematics; Necessity for abstractness; History and proof; Five streams; The time-scale; Seven periods; Some general characteristics; Motivation in mathematics; Residues of epochs; CHAPTER 2 - The Age of Empiricism; Arithmetic to 600 B.C.; Algebra without symbolism; Toward geometry and analysis; The greatest Egyptian pyramid; The contribution of Babylon and Egypt; CHAPTER 3 - Firmly Established; Mathematics and computation. Ex Oriente luxTwo supreme achievements; Chronology of Greek mathematics; Number from Pythagoras to Diophantus; The postulational method; Flight from intellectual prudery; Through geometry to metaphysics; Plane, solid, and linear loci; A wrong turning?; CHAPTER 4 - The European Depression; European mathematics from Boethius to Aquinas; Submathematical analysis; CHAPTER 5 - Detour through India, Arabia, and Spain; Partial emergence of algebra; The emergence of trigonometry; Mathematics at the crossroads; CHAPTER 6 - Four Centuries of Transition; Opposing currents; A terminus in algebra. A beginning

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Author

E. T. Bell, Eric Temple Bell

Publisher

Dover Publications, Incorporated

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780486272399

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Mathematics, Stem