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001 2008935288
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008 080814s2009 dcua b 001 0 eng d
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050 00 $aQA21$b.W336 2009
082 04 $a510.9$222
245 00 $aWho gave you the epsilon? :$band other tales of mathematical history /$cedited by Marlow Anderson, Victor Katz, Robin Wilson.
246 34 $aWho gave you the epsilon? & other tales of mathematical history
260 $aWashington, DC :$bMathematical Association of America,$cc2009.
300 $ax, 431 p. :$bill. ;$c28 cm.
490 1 $aSpectrum series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g[Pt. 1.] Analysis --$tWho gave you the epsilon? : Cauchy and the origins of rigorous calculus /$rJudith V. Grabiner --$tEvolution of the function concept : a brief survey /$rIsrael Kleiner --$tS. Kovalevsky : a mathematical lesson /$rKaren D. Rappaport --$tHighlights in the history of spectral theory /$rL.A. Steen --$tAlan Turing and the central limit theorem /$rS.L. Zabell --$tWhy did George Green write his essay of 1828 on electricity and magnetism? /$rI. Grattan-Guinness --$tConnectivity and smoke-rings : Green's second identity in its first fifty years /$rThomas Archibald --$tThe history of Stokes' theorem /$rVictor J. Katz --$tThe mathematical collaboration of M.L. Cartwright and J.E. Littlewood /$rShawnee L. McMurran and$rJames J. Tattersall --$tDr. David Harold Blackwell, African American pioneer /$rNkechi Agwu,$rLuella Smith and$rAissatou Barry --$g[pt. 2.] Geometry, topology and foundations --$tGauss and the non-Euclidean geometry /$rGeorge Bruce Halsted --$tHistory of the parallel postulate /$rFlorence P. Lewis --$tThe rise and fall of projective geometry /$rJ.L. Coolidge --$tNotes on the history of geometrical ideas /$rDan Pedoe --$tA note on the history of the Cantor set and Cantor function /$rJulian F. Fleron --$tEvolution of the topological concept of "connected" /$rR.L. Wilder --$tA brief, subjective history of homology and homotopy theory in this century /$rPeter Hilton --$tThe origins of modern axiomatics : Pasch to Peano /$rH.C. Kennedy --$tC.S. Pierce's philosophy of infinite sets /$rJoseph W. Dauben --$tOn the development of logics between the two world wars /$rI. Grattan-Guinness --$tDedekind's theorem : [square root of 2] x [square root of 3] = [square root of 6] /$rDavid Fowler --$g[pt. 3.] Algebra and number theory --$tHamilton's discovery of quaternions /$rB.L. van der Waerden --$tHamilton, Rodrigues, and the quaternion scandal /$rSimon L. Altmann --$tBuilding an international reputation : the case of J.J. Sylvester (1814-1897) /$rKaren Hunger Parshall and$rEugene Seneta --$tThe foundation period in the history of group theory /$rJosephine E. Burns --$tThe evolution of group theory : a brief survey /$rIsrael Kleiner --$tThe search for finite simple groups /$rJoseph A. Gallian --$tGenius and biographers : the fictionalization of Evariste Galois /$rTony Rothman --$tHermann Grassmann and the creation of linear algebra /$rDesmond Fearnley-Sander --$tThe roots of commutative algebra in algebraic number theory /$rIsrael Kleiner --$tEisenstein's misunderstood geometric proof of the quadratic reciprocity theorem /$rReinhard C. Laubenbacher and$rDavid J. Pengelley --$tWaring's problem /$rCharles Small --$tA history of the prime number theorem /$rL.J. Goldstein --$tA hundred years of prime numbers /$rPaul T. Bateman and$rHarold G. Diamond --$tThe Indian mathematician Ramanujan /$rG.H. Hardy --$tEmmy Noether /$rClark H. Kimberling --$t"A marvelous proof" /$rFernando Q. Gouvêa --$g[pt. 4.] Surveys --$tThe International Congress of Mathematicians /$rGeorge Bruce Halsted --$tA popular account of some new fields of thought in mathematics /$rG.A. Miller --$tA half-century of mathematics /$rHermann Weyl --$tMathematics at the turn of the millennium /$rPhilip A. Griffiths.
650 0 $aMathematics$xHistory.
650 6 $aMathématiques$xHistoire.
650 7 $aMathematik.$2idszbz
648 7 $aGeschichte (umfassend)$2idszbz
700 1 $aAnderson, Marlow,$d1950-
700 1 $aKatz, Victor J.
700 1 $aWilson, Robin J.
830 0 $aMAA spectrum.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0906/2008935288-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0906/2008935288-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0906/2008935288-t.html