The History of Modern Mathematics, Third Edition
Subtitle: Images, Ideas, and Communities (History of Modern Mathematics Vol. III)
Contributors: Eberhard Knobloch (Editor); David E. Rowe (Series Editor)
Edition: 3 edition
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: July 5, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780125996631
Subjects: History Of Mathematics; History of science; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Differential Equations; History & Philosophy; Mathematics / History; Mathematics-Differential Equations; Congresses; History
First sentence: The first mathematician to explicitly utilize the group concept in a geometrical setting was Camille Jordan (1838-1922).