Who gave you the epsilon? and other tales of mathematical history /
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Who gave you the epsilon? |h [electronic resource] : |b and other tales of mathematical history / |c edited by Marlow Anderson, Victor Katz, Robin Wilson. |
| 246 | 1 | 4 | |a Who gave you the epsilon? & other tales of mathematical history |
| 260 | |a Washington, D.C. : |b Mathematical Association of America, |c c2009. | ||
| 300 | |a x, 431 p. : |b ill. | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a Spectrum series | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g [Pt. 1.] Analysis -- |t Who gave you the epsilon? : Cauchy and the origins of rigorous calculus / |r Judith V. Grabiner -- |t Evolution of the function concept : a brief survey / |r Israel Kleiner -- |t S. Kovalevsky : a mathematical lesson / |r Karen D. Rappaport -- |t Highlights in the history of spectral theory / |r L.A. Steen -- |t Alan Turing and the central limit theorem / |r S.L. Zabell -- |t Why did George Green write his essay of 1828 on electricity and magnetism? / |r I. Grattan-Guinness -- |t Connectivity and smoke-rings : Green's second identity in its first fifty years / |r Thomas Archibald -- |t The history of Stokes' theorem / |r Victor J. Katz -- |t The mathematical collaboration of M.L. Cartwright and J.E. Littlewood / |r Shawnee L. McMurran and |r James J. Tattersall -- |t Dr. David Harold Blackwell, African American pioneer / |r Nkechi Agwu, |r Luella Smith and |r Aissatou Barry -- |g [pt. 2.] Geometry, topology and foundations -- |t Gauss and the non-Euclidean geometry / |r George Bruce Halsted -- |t History of the parallel postulate / |r Florence P. Lewis -- |t The rise and fall of projective geometry / |r J.L. Coolidge -- |t Notes on the history of geometrical ideas / |r Dan Pedoe -- |t A note on the history of the Cantor set and Cantor function / |r Julian F. Fleron -- |t Evolution of the topological concept of "connected" / |r R.L. Wilder -- |t A brief, subjective history of homology and homotopy theory in this century / |r Peter Hilton -- |t The origins of modern axiomatics : Pasch to Peano / |r H.C. Kennedy -- |t C.S. Pierce's philosophy of infinite sets / |r Joseph W. Dauben -- |t On the development of logics between the two world wars / |r I. Grattan-Guinness -- |t Dedekind's theorem : [square root of 2] x [square root of 3] = [square root of 6] / |r David Fowler -- |g [pt. 3.] Algebra and number theory -- |t Hamilton's discovery of quaternions / |r B.L. van der Waerden -- |t Hamilton, Rodrigues, and the quaternion scandal / |r Simon L. Altmann -- |t Building an international reputation : the case of J.J. Sylvester (1814-1897) / |r Karen Hunger Parshall and |r Eugene Seneta -- |t The foundation period in the history of group theory / |r Josephine E. Burns -- |t The evolution of group theory : a brief survey / |r Israel Kleiner -- |t The search for finite simple groups / |r Joseph A. Gallian -- |t Genius and biographers : the fictionalization of Evariste Galois / |r Tony Rothman -- |t Hermann Grassmann and the creation of linear algebra / |r Desmond Fearnley-Sander -- |t The roots of commutative algebra in algebraic number theory / |r Israel Kleiner -- |t Eisenstein's misunderstood geometric proof of the quadratic reciprocity theorem / |r Reinhard C. Laubenbacher and |r David J. Pengelley -- |t Waring's problem / |r Charles Small -- |t A history of the prime number theorem / |r L.J. Goldstein -- |t A hundred years of prime numbers / |r Paul T. Bateman and |r Harold G. Diamond -- |t The Indian mathematician Ramanujan / |r G.H. Hardy -- |t Emmy Noether / |r Clark H. Kimberling -- |t "A marvelous proof" / |r Fernando Q. Gouvêa -- |g [pt. 4.] Surveys -- |t The International Congress of Mathematicians / |r George Bruce Halsted -- |t A popular account of some new fields of thought in mathematics / |r G.A. Miller -- |t A half-century of mathematics / |r Hermann Weyl -- |t Mathematics at the turn of the millennium / |r Philip A. Griffiths. |
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| 700 | 1 | |a Wilson, Robin J. | |
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