Sherlock Holmes in Babylon
Subtitle: and Other Tales of Mathematical History
Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America; American Mathematical Society
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Format: Epub
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9781614445036
Copyright date: 2004
Table of contents: title: Ancient mathematics. Sherlock Holmes in Babylon / R. Creighton Buck --; title: Words and pictures: new light on Plimpton 322 / Eleanor Robson --; title: Mathematics, 600 B.C.-600 A.D. / Max Dehn --; title: Diophantus of Alexandria / J.D. Swift --; title: Hypatia of Alexandria / A.W. Richeson --; title: Hypatia and her mathematics / Michael A.B. Deakin --; title: The evolution of mathematics in ancient China / Frank Swetz --; title: Liu Hui and the first golden age of Chinese mathematics / Philip D. Straffin, Jr. --; title: Number systems of the North American Indians / W.C. Eells --; title: The number system of the Mayas / A.W. Richeson --; title: Before the conquest / Marcia Ascher --; title: Medieval and renaissance mathematics. The discovery of the series formula for [pi] by Leibniz, Gregory and Nilakantha / Ranjan Roy --; title: Ideas of calculus in Islam and India / Victor J. Katz --; title: Was calculus invented in India? / David Bressoud --; title: An early iterative method for the determinationof sin 1° / Farhad Riahi. Leonardo of Pisa and his Liber Quadratorum / R.B. McClenon --; title: The algorists vs. the abacists: an ancient controversy on the use of calculators / Barbara E. Reynolds --; title: Sidelights on the Cardan-Tartaglia controversy / Martin A. Nordgaard --; title: Reading Bombelli's x-purgated algebra / Abraham Arcavi and Maxim Bruckheimer --; title: The first work on mathematics printed in the New World / David Eugene Smith --; title: The seventeenth century. An application of geography to mathematics: history of the integral of the secant / V. Frederick Rickey and Philip M. Tuchinsky --; title: Some historical notes on the cycloid / E.A. Whitman --; title: Descartes and the problem-solving / Judith Grabiner --; title: René Descartes' curve-drawing devices: experiments in the relations between mechanical motion and symbolic language / David Dennis --; title: Certain mathematical achievements of James Gregory / Max Dehn and E.D. Hellinger --; title: The changing concept of change: the derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass / Judith V. Grabiner. The crooked made straight: Roberval and Newton on tangents / Paul R. Wolfson --; title: On the discovery of the logarithmic series and its development in England up to Cotes / Josef Ehrenfried Hofmann --; title: Isaac Newton: man, myth and mathematics / V. Frederick Rickey --; title: Reading the master: Newton and the birth of celestial mechanics / Bruce Pourciau --; title: Newton as an originator of polar coordinates / C.B. Boyer --; title: Newton's method for resolving affected equations / Chris Christensen --; title: A contribution of Leibniz to the history of complex numbers / R.B. McClenon --; title: Functions of a curve: Leibniz's original notion of functions / David Dennis and Jere Confrey --; title: The eighteenth century. Brook Taylor and the mathematical theory of linear perspectives / P.S. Jones --; title: Was Newton's calculus a dead end? The continental influence of Maclaurin's treatise of fluxions / Judith Grabiner --; title: Discussion of fluxions: from Berkeley to Woodhouse / Florian Cajori. The Bernoullis and the harmonic series / William Dunham --; title: Leonhard Euler 1707-1783 / J.J. Burckhardt --; title: The number e / J.L. Coolidge --; title: Euler's vision of a general partial differential calculus for a generalized kind of function / Jesper Lützen --; title: Euler and the fundamental theorem of algebra / William Dunham --; title: Euler and differentials / Anthony P. Ferzola --; title: Euler and quadratic reciprocity / Harold M. Edwards.