sábado, 8 de março de 2014

Mathematicians and their times: History of mathematics and mathematics of history


Laurence Young 

Academic Press, Elsevier | 1981 | 348 páginas | pdf | 5,4 Mb


Contents
Preface
Introduction
Early History; The Slow Renaissance; The New Beginning of analiysis
Chapter I The Romantic Period
The Flouting of Arithmetic; The Founding of the Ecole Polytechnique; Gauss; The First Romantics;  Riemann and Weierstrass; Between Two Worlds
Chapter II The Dream of a Conceptual Age, and the Hard Reality of Struggle for Existence
The unprized heritage; The significance of  Plato for mathematics; Cantor and Sets; Goettingen 
Chapter III The Age of Contradictions, and of Great Question Marks
The art of the possible;The expansion of mathematics; Cambridge; The Hardy-Littlewood era; The battle ground of ideas; The  uncertain further blooming
Index of Persons



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