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The History of Mathematics: Brief Version (Katz) ISBN: 0321161939 ISBN13: 9780321161932 The History of Mathematics: Brief Version (Katz) By: Victor J. Katz Publisher: Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc Format: Hardback Our Price: 50.99

  Table of contents:

In this text, Victor Katz provides a world view of mathematics, balancing ancient, early modern and modern history.


Contents:

1

Egypt and Mesopotamia

 2

Greek Mathematics to the Time of Euclid

 3

Greek Mathematics from Archimedes to Ptolemy

 4

Diophantus to Hypatia

 5

Ancient and Medieval China

 6

Ancient and Medieval India

 7

The Mathematics of Islam

 8

Mathematics in Medieval Europe

 9

Mathematics in the Renaissance

 10

Precalculus in the Seventeenth Century

 11

Calculus in the Seventeenth Century

 12

Analysis in the Eighteenth Century

 13

Probability and Statistics in the Eighteenth Century

 14

Algebra and Number Theory in the Eighteenth Century

 15

Geometry in the Eighteenth Century

 16

Algebra and Number Theory in the Nineteenth Century

 17

Analysis in the Nineteenth Century

 18

Statistics in the Nineteenth Century

 19

Geometry in the Nineteenth Century

 20

Aspects of the Twentieth Century

 Appendix.


Brief Description:

One of the leading historians in the mathematics field, Victor Katz provides a world view of mathematics, balancing ancient, early modern, and modern history.

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