Mathematical Expeditions: Chronicles by the ExplorersSpringer Science & Business Media, 1. des. 2013 - 278 sider This book contains the stories of five mathematical journeys into new realms, told through the writings of the explorers themselves. Some were guided by mere curiosity and the thrill of adventure, while others had more practical motives. In each case the outcome was a vast expansion of the known mathematical world and the realization that still greater vistas remained to be explored. The authors tell these stories by guiding the reader through the very words of the mathematicians at the heart of these events, and thereby provide insight into the art of approaching mathematical problems. The book can be used in a variety of ways. The five chapters are completely independent, each with varying levels of mathematical sophistication. The book will be enticing to students, to instructors, and to the intellectually curious reader. By working through some of the original sources and supplemental exercises, which discuss and solve - or attempt to solve - a great problem, this book helps the reader discover the roots of modern problems, ideas, and concepts, even whole subjects. Students will also see the obstacles that earlier thinkers had to clear in order to make their respective contributions to five central themes in the evolution of mathematics. |
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Side ix
... Set Theory : Taming the Infinite 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Bolzano's Paradoxes of the Infinite 2.3 Cantor's Infinite Numbers . 2.4 Zermelo's Axiomatization 3 Analysis : Calculating Areas and ... Theory : Fermat's Last Theorem 156 4.1 Introduction.
... Set Theory : Taming the Infinite 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Bolzano's Paradoxes of the Infinite 2.3 Cantor's Infinite Numbers . 2.4 Zermelo's Axiomatization 3 Analysis : Calculating Areas and ... Theory : Fermat's Last Theorem 156 4.1 Introduction.
Side 2
... theory . Among the ten postulates , or axioms , as they would be called today , the five most important ones are of ... theorem involving many difficulties , which Ptolemy , in a certain book , set himself to solve , and it requires for ...
... theory . Among the ten postulates , or axioms , as they would be called today , the five most important ones are of ... theorem involving many difficulties , which Ptolemy , in a certain book , set himself to solve , and it requires for ...
Side 17
... set theory chapter of this book , as the distinctive mark of twentieth - century mathematics . The failed attempt to prove that Euclid's was the one and only geometry led to a vast new mathematical universe , which is today continuing ...
... set theory chapter of this book , as the distinctive mark of twentieth - century mathematics . The failed attempt to prove that Euclid's was the one and only geometry led to a vast new mathematical universe , which is today continuing ...
Side 19
... set theory chapter ) follows a different approach [ 88 ] , instead taking words like point and line as undefined terms , about which one simply supposes basic properties that dictate how they interact with each other . For Euclid ...
... set theory chapter ) follows a different approach [ 88 ] , instead taking words like point and line as undefined terms , about which one simply supposes basic properties that dictate how they interact with each other . For Euclid ...
Side 20
... theory [ 42 ] . To consider his theory carefully , and obtain his result on angle sums in triangles , we begin with ... set up on a straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another , each of the equal angles is right , and ...
... theory [ 42 ] . To consider his theory carefully , and obtain his result on angle sums in triangles , we begin with ... set up on a straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another , each of the equal angles is right , and ...
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Taming the Infinite | 54 |
3 | 69 |
Calculating Areas and Volumes | 89 |
1 | 95 |
4 | 123 |
5 | 129 |
7 | 150 |
Fermats Last Theorem | 156 |
The Search for an Elusive Formula | 204 |
References | 259 |
Credits | 269 |
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aggregate algebraic analysis angle sum Archimedes arithmetic Axiom Axiom of Choice called Cantor Cardano cardinal number Cauchy Cauchy's Cavalieri's century coefficients complex numbers Continuum Hypothesis cube curve definition divisor elements equal equations of degree equivalent Euclid Euclid's Euclid's Elements Euclidean Euclidean geometry Euler Exercise exponent factors Fermat equation Fermat's Last Theorem FIGURE finite follows formula functions Fundamental Theorem Galois Gauss Germain given Greek hyperbolic geometry Hypothesis indivisibles infinite sets infinitesimal Lagrange Legendre Leibniz Lemma Lobachevsky mathematicians mathematics method natural numbers non-Euclidean non-Euclidean geometry number theory one-to-one correspondence parabola parallel postulate perpendicular PHOTO Poincaré polynomial prime numbers problem proof proposed equation Proposition prove Pythagorean triples Quadrature rational numbers real numbers reduced equation relatively prime result right angles roots segment set theory sides solution solve square straight line tangent triangle FDC values variable Zermelo's