Status
Available
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Collection
Publication
The Great Courses (2008), 12 hours, 24 lectures, 182 pages
Description
24 lectures describing the historical development of mathematics.
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
182 p.; 8.1 inches
Local notes
1 What Is Mathematics? / 2 Babylonian and Egyptian Mathematics / 3 Greek Mathematics—Thales to Euclid / 4 Greek Mathematics—Archimedes to Hypatia / 5 Astronomy and the Origins of Trigonometry / 6 Indian Mathematics—Trigonometry Blossoms / 7 Chinese Mathematics—Advances in Computation / 8 Islamic Mathematics—The Creation of Algebra / 9 Italian Algebraists Solve the Cubic / 10 Napier and the Natural Logarithm / 11 Galileo and the Mathematics of Motion / 12 Fermat, Descartes, and Analytic Geometry / 13 Newton—Modeling the Universe / 14 Leibniz and the Emergence of Calculus / 15 Euler—Calculus Proves Its Promise / 16 Geometry—From Alhambra to Escher / 17 Gauss—Invention of Differential Geometry / 18 Algebra Becomes the Science of Symmetry / 19 Modern Analysis—Fourier to Carleson / 20 Riemann Sets New Directions for Analysis / 21 Sylvester and Ramanujan—Different Worlds / 22 Fermat's Last Theorem—The Final Triumph / 23 Mathematics—The Ultimate Physical Reality / 24 Problems and Prospects for the 21st Century