Mathematical Circles

Volume 1 : In Mathematical Circles Quadrants I, II, III, IV

Howard Eves

145 pages, parution le 06/10/2004

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Résumé

For many years, famed mathematics historian and master teacher Howard Eves collected stories and anecdotes about mathematics and mathematicians, gathering them together in six Mathematical Cirdesbooks. Thousands of teachers of mathematics have read these stories and anecdotes for their own enjoyment and used them in the classroom-to add spice and entertainment, to introduce a human element, to inspire the student, and to forge some links of cultural history. Through a special arrangement with Professor Eves, the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is proud to reissue all six of the Mathematical Circles books in a three-volume edition.

The first two books were published to acclaim in 1969, as In Mathematical Circles (Volumes 1 and 2). They are bound together here as Volume I of the Mathematical Circles Collection. Mathematical Circles Revisited and Mathematical Circles Squared are bound together as Volume 2 of the Collection, and Mathematical Circles Adieu and Return to Mathematical Circles as Volume 3.

This three-volume set is a must for all who enjoy the mathematical enterprise, especially those who appreciate the human and cultural aspects of mathematics.

L'auteur - Howard Eves

Howard Eves spent most of his teaching career at the University of Maine at Orono, and more recently at Central Florida University. For 25 years, he edited the Elementary Problems Section of the American Mathematical Monthly. His books include: Great Moments in Mathematics Before 1650, Great Moments in Mathematics After 1650, Mathematical Reminiscences (all for the MAA), Introduction to the History of Mathematics, and his two-volume Survey of Geometry.

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Quadrants 1
- The Animal World
- Real and Imaginary
- Primitive Man
- Pre-Hellenic Mathematics
- A Few Later Chinese Stories
- Thales
- Pythagoras
- The Pythagorean Brotherhood
- Pythagoreanism
- Plato; Euclid
- Archimedes
- Eratosthenes and Appolonius
- Diophantus
- The End of the Greek Period
Quadrant 2
- Hindu Mathematics
- Arabian Mathematics
- The Return of Mathematics to Western Europe
- The Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Centuries
- The Episode of Cubic and Quartic Equations
- François Viète
- Simon Stevin
- John Napier, and Henry Briggs
- Thomas Harriot and William Oughtred
- Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler
- Gérard Desargues and Blaise Pascal
- René Descartes and Pierre de Fermat
Quadrants 3
- Some Minor Stories About Some Minor Men
- Pre-Newtonian Versus Post-Newtonian Mathematics
- Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- The Bernoullis; The Small Initial Understanding of the Calculus
- Bonaventura Cavalieri
- Yoshida Koyu and Seri Kowa
- Some Lesser Seventh- and Eighteenth-Century British Mathematicians
- Some lesser Seventeenth-and Eighteenth Century Continental Mathematicians
- Leonhard Euler
- Lagrange
- Laplace
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Quadrant 4
- Abel and Agnesi
- Charles Babbage
- Caryle and Legendre
- Mathematicians and Nature Lovers
- Clifford and Dodgson
- Calculating Prodigies
- Augustus de Morgan
- Albert Einstein
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Some Little Men
- Hamilton and Hardy
- The Miscellaneous Stories
- J. J. Sylvester and Norbert Wiener

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Éditeur(s)	The Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
Auteur(s)	Howard Eves
Parution	06/10/2004
Nb. de pages	145
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	573g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780883855423
ISBN13	978-0-88385-542-3