Sherlock Holmes in Babylon
Subtitle: and other tales of mathematical history
By: edited by Marlow Anderson, Victor Katz, Robin Wilson.
Contributors: Anderson, Marlow, 1950-; Katz, Victor J.; Wilson, Robin J.
Publisher: Mathematical Association of America
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
Subjects: Mathematics -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 1⁰ / Farhad Riahi; title: -; title: 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; title: -; title: 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; title: -; title: 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.