{"product_id":"who-gave-you-the-epsilon-and-other-tales-of-mathematical-history-hardback-9780883855690","title":"Who Gave you the Epsilon?; And Other Tales of Mathematical History (Hardback) 9780883855690","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWho Gave you the Epsilon?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAnd Other Tales of Mathematical History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFollows on from Sherlock Holmes in Babylon to take the history of mathematics through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMarlow Anderson (Author), Victor  Katz (Author), Robin Wilson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780883855690, The Mathematical Association of America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 31 March 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e439 pages\u003cbr\u003e27.4 x 19.4 x 2.7 cm, 1.01 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book picks up the history of mathematics from where Sherlock Holmes in Babylon left it. The 40 articles of Who Gave You the Epsilon? continue the story of the development of mathematics into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The articles have all been published in the Mathematical Association of America journals and are in many cases written by distinguished mathematicians such as G. H. Hardy and B. van der Waerden. The articles are arranged thematically to show the development of analysis, geometry, algebra and number theory through this period of time. Each chapter is preceded by a foreword, giving the historical background and setting and the scene, and is followed by an afterword, reporting on advances in our historical knowledge and understanding since the articles first appeared. This book is ideal for anyone wanting to explore the history of mathematics.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Analysis: 1. Who gave you the epsilon? Cauchy and the origins of rigorous calculus Judith V. Grabiner\u003cbr\u003e 2. Evolution of the function concept: a brief survey Israel Kleiner\u003cbr\u003e 3. S. Kovalevsky: a mathematical lesson Karen D. Rappaport\u003cbr\u003e 4. Highlights in the history of spectral theory L. A. Steen\u003cbr\u003e 5. Alan Turing and the central limit theorem S. L. Zabell\u003cbr\u003e 6. Why did George Green write his essay of 1828 on electricity and magnetism? I. Grattan-Guinness\u003cbr\u003e 7. Connectivity and smoke-rings: Green's second identity in its first fifty years Thomas Archibald\u003cbr\u003e 8. The history of Stokes' theorem Victor J. Katz\u003cbr\u003e 9. The mathematical collaboration of M. L. Cartwright and J. E. Littlewood Shawnee L. McMurran and James J. Tattersall\u003cbr\u003e 10. Dr David Harold Blackwell, African American pioneer Nkechi Agwu, Luella Smith and Aissatou Barry\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Geometry, Topology and Foundations: 11. Gauss and the non-Euclidean geometry George Bruce Halsted\u003cbr\u003e 12. History of the parallel postulate Florence P. Lewis\u003cbr\u003e 13. The rise and fall of projective geometry J. L. Coolidge\u003cbr\u003e 14. Notes on the history of geometrical ideas Dan Pedoe\u003cbr\u003e 15. A note on the history of the Cantor set and Cantor function Julian F. Fleron\u003cbr\u003e 16. Evolution of the topological concept of 'connected' R. L. Wilder\u003cbr\u003e 17. A brief, subjective history of homology and homotopy theory in this century Peter Hilton\u003cbr\u003e 18. The origins of modern axiomatics: Pasch to Peano H. C. Kennedy\u003cbr\u003e 19. C. S. Peirce's philosophy of infinite sets Joseph W. Dauben\u003cbr\u003e 20. On the development of logics between the two world wars I. Grattan-Guinness\u003cbr\u003e 21. Dedekind's theorem: √2 × √3 = √6 David Fowler\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Algebra and Number Theory: 22. Hamilton's discovery of quaternions B. L. van der Waerden: 23. Hamilton, Rodrigues, and the quaternion scandal Simon L. Altmann\u003cbr\u003e 24. Building an international reputation: the case of J. J. Sylvester (1814–1897) Karen Hunger Parshall and Eugene Seneta\u003cbr\u003e 25. The foundation period in the history of group theory Josephine E. Burns\u003cbr\u003e 26. The evolution of group theory: a brief survey Israel Kleiner\u003cbr\u003e 27. The search for finite simple groups Joseph A. Gallian\u003cbr\u003e 28. Genius and biographers: the fictionalization of Evariste Galois Tony Rothman\u003cbr\u003e 29. Hermann Grassmann and the creation of linear algebra Desmond Fearnley-Sander\u003cbr\u003e 30. The roots of commutative algebra in algebraic number theory Israel Kleiner\u003cbr\u003e 31. Eisenstein's misunderstood geometric proof of the quadratic reciprocity theorem Reinhard C. Laubenbacher and David J. Pengelley\u003cbr\u003e 32. Waring's problem Charles Small\u003cbr\u003e 33. A history of the prime number theorem L. J. Goldstein\u003cbr\u003e 34. A hundred years of prime numbers Paul T. Bateman and Harold G. Diamond\u003cbr\u003e 35. The Indian mathematician Ramanujan G. H. Hardy\u003cbr\u003e 36. Emmy Noether Clark H. Kimberling\u003cbr\u003e 37. 'A marvellous proof' Fernando Q. Gouvˆea\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Surveys: 38. The international congress of mathematicians George Bruce Halsted\u003cbr\u003e 39. A popular account of some new fields of thought in mathematics G. A. Miller\u003cbr\u003e 40. A half-century of mathematics Hermann Weyl\u003cbr\u003e 41. Mathematics at the turn of the millennium Philip A. Griffiths\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Mathematics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Mathematics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Mathematics%20%5BPB%5D%22\"\u003ePB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The Mathematical Association of America","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52511473402136,"sku":"9780883855690","price":47.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/who-gave-you-the-epsilon-and-other-tales-of-mathematical-history-hardback-9780883855690","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}