A Long Way from Euclid - Couverture souple

Reid, Constance

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0486436136 ISBN 13 : 9780486436135

Editeur : Dover Publications Inc., 2004

Synopsis

A Long Way from Euclid Lively guide by a prominent historian focuses on the role of Euclid's "Elements" in subsequent mathematical developments. Elementary algebra and plane geometry are sole prerequisites. 80 drawings. 1963 edition. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Constance Reid There is no royal road to geometry, Euchd told Ptolemy. But now Constance Reid tells us, Modem geometry is a royal road. And she proves it with her fascinating introduction to the wonderland of twentieth-century mathematics, A Long Way fromE uclid. This book will delight anyone who has ever felt the spell of the Queen of theS ciences. Based in part on the authors previous success, Introduction to Higher Mathematics, it concentrates on the role played by theE lements of Euclid in the last two thousand years. The reader needs no mathematical background beyond his recollection of elementary algebra and plane geometry. The authors clear and simple explanations, aided by more than 80 drawings integrated with the text, will take him step by step from ideas familiar since childhood to some of the most exciting outposts of contemporary mathematics: the arithmetic of the infinite, the paradoxes of point sets, the knotty problems of topology, the truth tables of symbolic logic. Constance Reid begins with the ancient Greeks disturbing discovery that the real world did not fit the system of numbers they had so carefully laid out. There are, they found, quantities that cannot be specified in terms of whole numbers.
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Dover Publications Inc.
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0486436136
• ISBN 13: 9780486436135
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304