| Description |
xxiv, 758 pages : illustrations. |
| Content |
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| Media |
unmediated n |
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| Edition |
1st Princeton paperback print. with corrections. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Credits |
First edition, Hawthorn Books, 1970. First Princeton paperback printing, with corrections, 1982. |
| Contents |
From babylonian beginnings to digital computers -- Mathematical method and main streams are launched -- Mathematical reasoning from eudoxus to lobachevsky -- Algebra from hypatia to hamilton -- Equations, human and inhuman -- Universal language -- Forefathers of modern mathematics and their legacy -- Calculus for heaven and earth -- Determinism and its creators -- Elements of strategy in war and peace -- Probabilistic models, great expectations, and randomized strategies -- General games and statistical decision theory -- From dice to quantum theory and quality control -- Realm of random variables -- Demons, energy, maxwell, and gibbs -- Sweet manuscript of youth -- Unification of geometry -- Special group and its application -- Geometry for universe-builders -- Post-relativity geometry -- East meets west in the higher arithmetic -- Reformation of analysis -- Royal roads to functional analysis -- Infinite hierarchy -- Angelic geometry -- Leonardos of modern mathematics -- Twentieth-century vistas -- analysis -- Twentieth-century vistas -- algebra -- Twentieth-century vistas -- logic and foundations -- Retrospect and prospect. |
| Subject(s) |
Mathematics.
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