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Lecture 1. Scratches And Grunts : 1. Keeping Count By A One-to-one Correspondence (many Millenia Ago) -- Lecture 2. The Greatest Egyptian Pyramid : 2. Inducing The Volume Of A Truncated Square Pyramid (ca. 1850 B.c.) -- Lecture 3. From The Laboratory Into The Study : 3. Introduction Of Deductive Procedures Into Mathematics (ca. 600 B.c.) -- Lecture 4. The First Great Theorem : 4. The Pythagorean Theorem (ca. 540 B.c.) -- Lecture 5. Precipitation Of The First Crisis : 5. The Discovery Of Irrational Magnitudes (ca. 540 B.c.) -- Lecture 6. Resolution Of The First Crisis : 6. The Eudoxian Theory Of Proportion (ca. 370 B.c.) -- Lecture 7. First Steps In Organizing Mathematics : 7. Material Axiomatics (ca. 350 B.c.) -- Lecture 8. The Mathematicians' Bible : 8. Euclid's Elements (ca. 300 B.c.) -- Lecture 9. The Thinker And The Thug : 9. Archimedes On The Sphere (ca. 240 B.c.) -- Lecture 10. A Boost From Astronomy : 10. Ptolemy's Construction Of A Table Of Chords (ca. 130) --^ Lecture 11. The First Great Number Theorist : 11. Diophantus And His Arithmetica (ca. 250) -- Lecture 12. The Syncopation Of Algebra : 12. The First Steps Toward Algebraic Symbolism (ca. 250) -- Lecture 13. Two Early

Author

Howard Eves; [charts and drawings by John Zermani]

Publisher

[Washington, D.C.]: Mathematical Association of America

Published

1980

Language

EN

ISBN

9780883853108

Subjects

Mathematics, History, Stem