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Numbers

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A book about numbers sounds rather dull. This one is not. Instead it is a lively story about one thread of mathematics-the concept of "number" told by eight authors and organized into a historical narrative that leads the reader from ancient Egypt to the late twentieth century. It is a story that begins with some of the simplest ideas of mathematics and ends with some of the most complex. It is a story that mathematicians, both amateur and professional, ought to know. Why write about numbers? Mathematicians have always found it diffi cult to develop broad perspective about their subject. While we each view our specialty as having roots in the past, and sometimes having connec tions to other specialties in the present, we seldom see the panorama of mathematical development over thousands of years. Numbers attempts to give that broad perspective, from hieroglyphs to K-theory, from Dedekind cuts to nonstandard analysis.weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-0-387-97497-2 / 978-0387974972 / 9780387974972

Verlag: Springer US

Erscheinungsdatum: 19.12.1990

Seiten: 398

Auflage: 1

Zielgruppe: Graduate

Autor(en): Max Koecher, Reinhold Remmert, Klaus Mainzer, Alexander Prestel, Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus, Jürgen Neukirch, Hans Hermes, Friedrich Hirzebruch
Herausgegeben von John H. Ewing
Einführung von K. Lamotke
Übersetzt von H.L.S. Orde

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