The search for certainty : a journey through the history of mathematics, 1800-2000 / edited by Frank J. Swetz.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2012.Description: vi, 186 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0486474429 : PAP
  • 9780486474427
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 510.9
LOC classification:
  • QA26 .S43 2012
Contents:
The changing concept of change: the derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass -- Niels Henrik Abel -- Olivier and Abel on series convergence: an episode from early 19th century analysis -- The parallel postulate -- Saccheri, forerunner of non-euclidean geometry -- The evolution of group theory: a brief survey -- The men responsible for the development of vectors -- Matrix theory I: Arthur Cayley-founder of Matrix Theory -- Matrix Theory II: basic properties -- Matrix Theory III: the characteristic equation; minimal polynomials -- Sylvester and Scott -- The early beginnings of set theory -- Infinity: the twilight zone of mathematics -- Irrationals or incommensurables V: their admission to the realm of numbers -- The genesis of point set topology: from Newton to Hausdorff -- The origin of the four-color conjecture -- Meta-mathematics and the modern conception of mathematics -- Intuition and logic in mathematics -- The three crises in mathematics: logicism, intuitionism, and formalism -- Kurt Godel, mathematician and logician -- Thinking the unthinkable: the story of complex numbers (with a moral) -- The development of modern statistics -- ENIAC: the first computer -- Dynamical systems: Birkhoff and Smale -- Fermat's last theorem: 1637-1988.
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Contains a new selection from the work, From five fingers to infinity : a journey through the history of mathematics, published by Open Court in 1994.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The changing concept of change: the derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass -- Niels Henrik Abel -- Olivier and Abel on series convergence: an episode from early 19th century analysis -- The parallel postulate -- Saccheri, forerunner of non-euclidean geometry -- The evolution of group theory: a brief survey -- The men responsible for the development of vectors -- Matrix theory I: Arthur Cayley-founder of Matrix Theory -- Matrix Theory II: basic properties -- Matrix Theory III: the characteristic equation; minimal polynomials -- Sylvester and Scott -- The early beginnings of set theory -- Infinity: the twilight zone of mathematics -- Irrationals or incommensurables V: their admission to the realm of numbers -- The genesis of point set topology: from Newton to Hausdorff -- The origin of the four-color conjecture -- Meta-mathematics and the modern conception of mathematics -- Intuition and logic in mathematics -- The three crises in mathematics: logicism, intuitionism, and formalism -- Kurt Godel, mathematician and logician -- Thinking the unthinkable: the story of complex numbers (with a moral) -- The development of modern statistics -- ENIAC: the first computer -- Dynamical systems: Birkhoff and Smale -- Fermat's last theorem: 1637-1988.

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