An episodic history of mathematics : mathematical culture through problem solving / Steven G. Krantz.

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Bibliographic Details
Published:	[Washington, DC] : Mathematical Association of America, c2010.
Main Author:	Krantz, Steven G. (Steven George), 1951-
Corporate Author:	Mathematical Association of America
Series:	MAA textbooks
Subjects:	Mathematics > History > Study and teaching (Higher) Mathematics > Problems, exercises, etc. Mathematics > Study and teaching (Higher) Mathematicians.
Format:	Book

An episodic history of mathematics : mathematical culture through problem solving /

Table of Contents:

The ancient Greeks and the foundations of mathematics
Zeno's paradox and the concept of limit
The mystical mathematics of Hypatia
The Islamic world and the development of algebra
Cardano, Abel, Galois, and the solving of equations
René Descartes and the idea of coordinates
Pierre de Fermat and the invention of differential calculus
The great Isaac Newton
The complex numbers and the fundamental theorem of algebra
Carl Friedrich Gauss: the prince of mathematics
Sophie Germain and the attack on Fermat's last problem
Cauchy and the foundations of analysis
The prime numbers
Dirichlet and how to count
Bernhard Riemann and the geometry of surfaces
Georg Cantor and the orders of infinity
The number systems
Henri Poincaré, child phenomenon
Sonya Kovalevskaya and the mathematics of mechanics
Emmy Noether and algebra
Methods of proof
Alan Turing and cryptography.