Información General

• Autores: Tom M. Apóstol
• Editores: Berlin : Springer, 2002
• Año de publicación: 2002
• País: Alemania
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 3-540-92647-X
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Resumen

• The film explains with easy-accessible examples and in Tom Apostol's characteristically perfect presentation major events in the history of early mathematics. Everybody interested in mathematics will be able to understand the film, and even experts will learn something new from it.

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Índice

• 1. Introduction.- 2. From Euclid to the Seventeenth Century.- 3. From Scratch Marks to Number Systems.- 4. From Numerology to Number Theory.- 5. The Pythagorean Theorem.- 6. A Shocking Discovery.- 7. Pi Through the Ages.- 8. From Astronomy to Trigonometry.- 9. From Archimedes to Fermat and Descartes.- 10. The Race for the Calculus.