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Mathematical Culture Through Problem Solving

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Problems, exercises, Wiskundigen, Study and teaching (Higher), Mathematics, Wiskunde, Mathematicians, History, Mathematics, history, Mathematics, study and teaching, Mathematics, problems, exercises, etc.

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Table of Contents

Preface Page xi
1. The Ancient Greeks and the foundations of Mathematics Page 1 2. Zeno's Paradox and the Concept of Limit Page 25 3. The Mystical mathematics of Hypatia Page 43 4. The Islamic World and the Development of Algebra Page 55 5. Cardano, Abel, Galois, and the Solving of Equations Page 73 6. Rene Descartes and the Idea of Coordinates Page 95 7. Pierre de Fermat and the Invention of Differential Calculus Page 109 8. The Great Isaac Newton Page 124 9. The Complex Numbers and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra Page 151 10. Carl Friedrich Gauss: The Prince of Mathematics Page 169 11. Sophie Germain and the Attack on Fermat's Last Problem Page 195 12. Cauchy and the Foundations of Analysis Page 207 13. The Prime Numbers Page 223 14. Dirichlet and How to Count Page 237 15. Bernard Riemann and the Geometry of Surfaces Page 247 16. Georg Cantor and the Orders of Infinity Page 261 17. The Number Systems Page 275 18. Henri Poincare, Child Phenomenon Page 289 19. Sonya Kovalevskaya and the Mathematics of Mechanics Page 305 20. Emmy Noether and Algebra Page 319 21. Methods of Proof Page 331 22. Alan Turing and Cryptography Page 345 Bibliography Page 365 Index Page 371 About the Author Page 381

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