Sherlock Holmes in Babylon and other tales of mathematical history /
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Sherlock Holmes in Babylon |h [electronic resource] : |b and other tales of mathematical history / |c edited by Marlow Anderson, Victor Katz, Robin Wilson. |
| 260 | |a Washington, D.C. : |b Mathematical Association of America, |c c2004. | ||
| 300 | |a x, 387 p. : |b ill., maps, ports. | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a Spectrum series | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Ancient mathematics. Sherlock Holmes in Babylon / R. Creighton Buck -- Words and pictures: new light on Plimpton 322 / Eleanor Robson -- Mathematics, 600 B.C.-600 A.D. / Max Dehn -- Diophantus of Alexandria / J.D. Swift -- Hypatia of Alexandria / A.W. Richeson -- Hypatia and her mathematics / Michael A.B. Deakin -- The evolution of mathematics in ancient China / Frank Swetz -- Liu Hui and the first golden age of Chinese mathematics / Philip D. Straffin, Jr. -- Number systems of the North American Indians / W.C. Eells -- The number system of the Mayas / A.W. Richeson -- Before the conquest / Marcia Ascher -- Medieval and renaissance mathematics. The discovery of the series formula for [pi] by Leibniz, Gregory and Nilakantha / Ranjan Roy -- Ideas of calculus in Islam and India / Victor J. Katz -- Was calculus invented in India? / David Bressoud -- An early iterative method for the determinationof sin 1⁰ / Farhad Riahi --- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Leonardo of Pisa and his Liber Quadratorum / R.B. McClenon -- The algorists vs. the abacists: an ancient controversy on the use of calculators / Barbara E. Reynolds -- Sidelights on the Cardan-Tartaglia controversy / Martin A. Nordgaard -- Reading Bombelli's x-purgated algebra / Abraham Arcavi and Maxim Bruckheimer -- The first work on mathematics printed in the New World / David Eugene Smith -- The seventeenth century. An application of geography to mathematics: history of the integral of the secant / V. Frederick Rickey and Philip M. Tuchinsky -- Some historical notes on the cycloid / E.A. Whitman -- Descartes and the problem-solving / Judith Grabiner -- René Descartes' curve-drawing devices: experiments in the relations between mechanical motion and symbolic language / David Dennis -- Certain mathematical achievements of James Gregory / Max Dehn and E.D. Hellinger -- The changing concept of change: the derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass / Judith V. Grabiner --- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a The crooked made straight: Roberval and Newton on tangents / Paul R. Wolfson -- On the discovery of the logarithmic series and its development in England up to Cotes / Josef Ehrenfried Hofmann -- Isaac Newton: man, myth and mathematics / V. Frederick Rickey -- Reading the master: Newton and the birth of celestial mechanics / Bruce Pourciau -- Newton as an originator of polar coordinates / C.B. Boyer -- Newton's method for resolving affected equations / Chris Christensen -- A contribution of Leibniz to the history of complex numbers / R.B. McClenon -- Functions of a curve: Leibniz's original notion of functions / David Dennis and Jere Confrey -- The eighteenth century. Brook Taylor and the mathematical theory of linear perspectives / P.S. Jones -- Was Newton's calculus a dead end? The continental influence of Maclaurin's treatise of fluxions / Judith Grabiner -- Discussion of fluxions: from Berkeley to Woodhouse / Florian Cajori --- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a The Bernoullis and the harmonic series / William Dunham -- Leonhard Euler 1707-1783 / J.J. Burckhardt -- The number e / J.L. Coolidge -- Euler's vision of a general partial differential calculus for a generalized kind of function / Jesper Lützen -- Euler and the fundamental theorem of algebra / William Dunham -- Euler and differentials / Anthony P. Ferzola -- Euler and quadratic reciprocity / Harold M. Edwards. | |
| 533 | |a Electronic reproduction. |b Palo Alto, Calif. : |c ebrary, |d 2013. |n Available via World Wide Web. |n Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. | ||
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| 700 | 1 | |a Katz, Victor J. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Wilson, Robin J. | |
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