This book presents reverse mathematics to a general mathematical audience for the first time. Reverse mathematics is a new field that answers some old questions. In the two thousand years that mathematicians have been deriving theorems...

This book presents reverse mathematics to a general mathematical audience for the first time. Reverse mathematics is a new field that answers some old questions. In the two thousand years that mathematicians have been deriving theorems...

"Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Gödel" von John Stillwell ist ein umfassendes Werk, das die Entwicklung der Mathematik von der Antike bis zur modernen Zeit nachzeichnet. Stillwell führt die Leser durch die wichtigsten...

Algebra is abstract mathematics - let us make no bones about it - yet it is also applied mathematics in its best and purest form. It is not abstraction for its own sake, but abstraction for the sake of efficiency, power and insight....

Many people think there is only one ¿right¿ way to teach geometry. For two millennia, the ¿right¿ way was Euclid¿s way, and it is still good in many respects. But in the 1950s the cry ¿Down with triangles!¿ was heard in France and new...

"Mathematics and Its History: A Concise Edition" von John Stillwell bietet einen kompakten Überblick über die Entwicklung der Mathematik von der Antike bis zur Moderne. Das Buch ist Teil der "Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics"-Reihe und...

A beautiful and relatively elementary account of a part of mathematics where three main fields - algebra, analysis and geometry - meet. The book provides a broad view of these subjects at the level of calculus, without being a calculus...

"Mathematics and Its History" von John Stillwell ist ein umfassendes Werk, das die Entwicklung der Mathematik von ihren Anfängen bis zur modernen Zeit nachzeichnet. Das Buch richtet sich an Studierende und bietet eine einzigartige...