A Source Book in Mathematics, Volume 1

by David Eugene Smith

Paper Book, 1959

Status

Available

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510.82

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Indeholder "Author's Preface", "I. The Field of Number", " The First Printed Arithmetic. Treviso, 1478", " Selection translated from the Italian by David Eugene Smith", " Robert Recorde on "The Declaration of the Profit of Arithmeticke"", " Selected from The Ground of Artes, by David Eugene Smith",
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" Stevin on Decimal Fractions", " Translated from the French by Vera Sanford", " Dedekind on Irrational Numbers", " Translated from the German by Wooster Woodruff Beman. Selection made and edited by Vera Sanford", " John Wallis on Imaginary Numbers", " Selected and edited by David Eugene Smith", " Wessel on Complex Numbers", " Translated from the Danish by Martin A. Nordgaard", " Pascal on the Arithmetic Triangle", " Translated from the French by Anna Savitsky", " Bombelli and Cataldi on Continued Fractions", " Translated from the Italian by Vera Sanford", " Bernoulli on 'Bernoulli Numbers'", " Translated from the Latin by Jekuthiel Ginsburg", " Euler on Every Integer as a Sum of Four Squares", " Translated from the Latin by E. T. Bell", " Euler on the Use of e to represent 2.718...", " Selections translated from the Latin by Florian Cajori", " Hermite on the Transcendence of e", " Translated from the French by Laura Guggenbühl", " Gauss on the Congruence of Numbers", " Translated from the Latin by Ralph G. Archibald", " Gauss on the Third Proof of the Law of Quadratic Reciprocity", " Translated from the Latin by D. H. Lehmer", " Kummer on Ideal Numbers", " Translated from the German by Thomas Freeman Cope", " Chebyshev (Tchebycheff) on the Totality of Primes", " Translated from the French by J. D. Tamarkin", " Napier on the Table of Logarithms", " Selected and edited by W. D. Cairns", " Delamain on the Slide Rule", " Edited by Florian Cajori", " Ouchtred on the Slide Rule", " Edited by Florian Cajori", " Pascal on His Calculating Machine", " Translated from the French by L. Leiand Locke", " Leibniz on His Calculating Machine", " Translated from the Latin by Mark Kormes", " Napier on the Napier Rods", " Translated from the Latin by Jekuthiel Ginsburg", " Galileo Galilei on the Proportional or Sector Compasses", " Translated from the Italian by David Eugene Smith", " D'Ocagne on Nomography", " Translated from the French by Nevin C. Fisk", "II. The Field of Algebra", " Cardan on Imaginary Roots", " Translated from the Latin by Vera Sanford", " Cardan on the Cubic Equation", " Translated from the Latin by R. B. McClenon", " Ferrari-Cardan on the Biquadratic Equation", " Translated from the Latin by R. B. McClenon, with additional notes by Jekuthiel Ginsburg", " Fermat on the Equation x^n + y^n = z^n", " Translated from the French by Vera Sanford", " Fermat on the So-called Pell Equation", " Translated from the Latin by Edward E. Whitford", " John Wallis on General Exponents", " Translated from the Latin by Eva M. Sanford", " Wallis and Newton on the Binomial Theorem for Fractional and Negative Exponents", " Selection from Wallis's Algebra, by David Eugene Smith", " Newton on the Binomial Theorem for Fractional and Negative Exponents", " Translated from the Latin by Eva M. Sanford", " Leibniz and the Bernoullis on the Polynomial Theorem", " Translated from the Latin by Jekuthiel Ginsburg", " Horner on Numerical Higher Equations", " Selected and edited by Margaret McGuire", " Rolle on the Location of Roots", " Translated from the French by Florian Cajori", " Abel on the Quintic Equation", " Translated from the French by W. H. Langdon, with notes by Oystein Öre", " Leibniz on Determinants", " Translated from the Latin by Thomas Freeman Cope", " Bernoulli. Verses on Infinite Series", " Translated from the Latin by Helen M. Walker", " Bernoulli on the Theory of Combinations", " Translated from the Latin by Mary M. Taylor", " Galois on Groups and Equations", " Translated from the French by Louis Weisner", " Abel's Theorem on the Continuity of Functions Defined by Power Series", " Translated from the German by Albert A. Bennett", " Gauss on the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra", " Translated from the Latin by C. Raymond Adams", "Index for Volume One and Volume Two", "Catalogue of Dover Books".

En mængde originale tekster indenfor matematik.
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Publication

Dover Publications (1959), Paperback, 306 pages

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

306 p.; 20.3 cm

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Omslag: Ikke angivet
Omslaget viser Blaise Pascal og Leonard Euler, samt William Oughtred's cirkelformede regnestok fra 1632
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi

Pages

306

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