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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Brief Biographies of Selected Mathematicians
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book comprises five parts. The first three contain ten historical essays on important topics: number theory, calculus/analysis, and proof, respectively. Part four deals with several historically oriented courses, and Part five provides biographies of five mathematicians—Dedekind, Euler, Gauss, Hilbert, and Weierstrass—who played major roles in the historical events described in the first four parts of the work.
Excursions in the History of Mathematics was written with several goals in mind: to arouse mathematics teachers’ interest in the history of their subject; to encourage mathematics teachers with at least some knowledge of the history of mathematics to offer courses with a strong historical component; and to provide an historical perspective on a number of basic topics taught in mathematics courses.
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“The book under review was written with two main goals in mind: (1) to arose mathematics teachers’ interest in the history of mathematics, and (2) to encourage mathematics teachers with at least some knowledge of the history of mathematics to offer courses with a strong historical component. … The book can serve teachers of mathematics as well as mathematicians who want to get to know historical background of their subjects. It can be also useful to those teaching or studying the history of mathematics.” (Roman Murawski, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1230, 2012)Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics, York University, Toronto, Canada
Israel Kleiner
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Excursions in the History of Mathematics
Authors: Israel Kleiner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-8268-2
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston, MA
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8176-8267-5Published: 01 December 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-8176-8268-2Published: 02 February 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 347
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences, Mathematics Education, Number Theory, Analysis, Mathematical Logic and Foundations, Mathematics, general