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Defending Hypatia Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical History / by Goulding, Robert

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Defending Hypatia Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical History / by Goulding, Robert

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The philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir critical essays /

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The philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir critical essays /

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An episodic history of mathematics mathematical culture through problem solving / by Krantz, Steven G. (Steven George), 1951-

Table of Contents: “…The ancient Greeks and the foundations of mathematics -- Zeno's paradox and the concept of limit -- The mystical mathematics of Hypatia -- The Islamic world and the development of algebra -- Cardano, Abel, Galois, and the solving of equations -- René Descartes and the idea of coordinates -- Pierre de Fermat and the invention of differential calculus -- The great Isaac Newton -- The complex numbers and the fundamental theorem of algebra -- Carl Friedrich Gauss: the prince of mathematics -- Sophie Germain and the attack on Fermat's last problem -- Cauchy and the foundations of analysis -- The prime numbers -- Dirichlet and how to count -- Bernhard Riemann and the geometry of surfaces -- Georg Cantor and the orders of infinity -- The number systems -- Henri Poincaré, child phenomenon -- Sonya Kovalevskaya and the mathematics of mechanics -- Emmy Noether and algebra -- Methods of proof -- Alan Turing and cryptography.…”
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An episodic history of mathematics mathematical culture through problem solving / by Krantz, Steven G. (Steven George), 1951-

Table of Contents: “…The ancient Greeks and the foundations of mathematics -- Zeno's paradox and the concept of limit -- The mystical mathematics of Hypatia -- The Islamic world and the development of algebra -- Cardano, Abel, Galois, and the solving of equations -- René Descartes and the idea of coordinates -- Pierre de Fermat and the invention of differential calculus -- The great Isaac Newton -- The complex numbers and the fundamental theorem of algebra -- Carl Friedrich Gauss: the prince of mathematics -- Sophie Germain and the attack on Fermat's last problem -- Cauchy and the foundations of analysis -- The prime numbers -- Dirichlet and how to count -- Bernhard Riemann and the geometry of surfaces -- Georg Cantor and the orders of infinity -- The number systems -- Henri Poincaré, child phenomenon -- Sonya Kovalevskaya and the mathematics of mechanics -- Emmy Noether and algebra -- Methods of proof -- Alan Turing and cryptography.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Sherlock Holmes in Babylon and other tales of mathematical history /

Table of Contents: “…. / Max Dehn -- Diophantus of Alexandria / J.D. Swift -- Hypatia of Alexandria / A.W. Richeson -- Hypatia and her mathematics / Michael A.B. …”
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Sherlock Holmes in Babylon and other tales of mathematical history /

Table of Contents: “…. / Max Dehn -- Diophantus of Alexandria / J.D. Swift -- Hypatia of Alexandria / A.W. Richeson -- Hypatia and her mathematics / Michael A.B. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view