Stamping through Mathematics
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-0-387-98949-5 (ISBN)
Introduction; Preface; 1. Early mathematics; 2. Egypt; 3. Greek geometry; 4. Plato's Academy; 5. Euclid and Archimedes; 6. Greek astromony; 7. Ancient board games; 8. China; 9. Central America; 10. India; 11. Islamic mathematics: Al-Khwarizmi to Alhazen; 12. Islamic astronomy; 13. Islamic mathematics: Avicenna to al-Tusi; 14. Late Islamic mathematics; 15. Europe: the Middle Ages; 16. The growth of learning; 17. Art and mathematics; 18. Chess and Go; 19. The age of exploration; 20. Map making; 21. MAthematical instruments; 22. Globes; 23. Nicolaus Copernicus; 24. Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo; 25. Calendars and clocks; 26. Calculating numbers; 27. France: Descartes and Pascal; 28. Isaac Newton; 29: The Continent: Leibniz to Euler; 30. Reactions to Newton; 31. Halley's comet; 23. Determination of longitude; 33. Mathematics in the New World; 34. Enlightenment France; 35. The French Revolution; 36. Gauss and non-Euclidian geometry; 37. The development of algebra; 38. 19th-century astronomy; 39. Russia; 40. Eastern Europe; 41. China and Japan; 42. Mathematical physics 1; 43. Mathematical physics 2; 44. Albert Einstein; 45. Mathematical physics 3; 46. Statistics; 47. 20th-century mathematics; 48. The birth of computing; 49. The development of computing; 50. International congresses; 51. Mathematics and nature; 52. Mathematics and art; 53. The geometry of space; 54. Mathematical recreations; 55. Mathematical education; 56. Metrication; 57. Mathematical shapes; List of stamps; Index.
Zusatzinfo | VIII, 126 p. |
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Verlagsort | New York, NY |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
Gewicht | 552 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik | |
Sozialwissenschaften | |
ISBN-10 | 0-387-98949-8 / 0387989498 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-387-98949-5 / 9780387989495 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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