Numbers

di Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus (Autore)

Hans Hermes (Autore)

Friedrich Hirzebruch (Autore)

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Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 1990

A book about numbers sounds rather dull. This one is not. Instead it is a lively story about one thread of mathematics-the concept of "number"­ told by eight authors and organized into a historical narrative that leads the reader from ancient Egypt to the late twentieth century. It is a story that begins with some of the simplest ideas of mathematics and ends with some of the most complex. It is a story that mathematicians, both amateur and professional, ought to know. Why write about numbers? Mathematicians have always found it diffi­ cult to develop broad perspective about their subject. While we each view our specialty as having roots in the past, and sometimes having connec­ tions to other specialties in the present, we seldom see the panorama of mathematical development over thousands of years. Numbers attempts to give that broad perspective, from hieroglyphs to K-theory, from Dedekind cuts to nonstandard analysis.

• Autore: Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus, Hans Hermes, Friedrich Hirzebruch
• Traduttore: H.L.S. Orde
• Curatore: John H. Ewing
• Editore: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Collana: Graduate Texts in Mathematics
• Anno: 1990
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 398 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9780387974972

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