The Infinite in the Finite

有限中的无限

数学史

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出版时间
1995年10月26日
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ISBN
9780198539506
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538
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234x156mm
语      种
英文
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Combining historical fact with a retelling of ancient myths and legends, Alistair Wilson shows how mathematics arose out of the problems of everyday life. He introduces concepts such as geometry, prime numbers, and trigonometry in a way that will totally disarm the reader who fears mathematics and sets them firmly in their historical context. Each section begins with a description of the historical, geographical, and religious background that gave rise to mathematics in ancient Egypt, Babylon, China, Greece, India and the Arab world. The book covers: * The geometry of stone circles in Europe * The area of triangles and volume of pyramids that concerned the engineers of the Pharoahs * The Babylonian sexagesimal number system and our present measures of space and time which grew out of it * The use of the abacus and remainder theory in China * Greek mathematics from Pythagoras to Pappus * The invention of trigonometry by Arab mathematicians * Th
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