Greek Mathematical Thought And The Origin Of Algebra

Author : Jacob Klein
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486319814
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra written by Jacob Klein and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important study focuses on the revival and assimilation of ancient Greek mathematics in the 13th-16th centuries, via Arabic science, and the 16th-century development of symbolic algebra. 1968 edition. Bibliography.

Author : Jacob Klein
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486272894
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra written by Jacob Klein and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important study focuses on the revival and assimilation of ancient Greek mathematics in the 13th–16th centuries, via Arabic science, and the 16th-century development of symbolic algebra. This brought about the crucial change in the concept of number that made possible modern science — in which the symbolic "form" of a mathematical statement is completely inseparable from its "content" of physical meaning. Includes a translation of Vieta's Introduction to the Analytical Art. 1968 edition. Bibliography.

Author : Jacob Klein
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262610223
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra written by Jacob Klein and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1976-08-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of symbolic algebra as a fundamental change in the concept of number.

Author : Jacob Klein
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262110259
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra written by Jacob Klein and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1968-06-15 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Burt C. Hopkins
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253005272
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin of the Logic of Symbolic Mathematics written by Burt C. Hopkins and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burt C. Hopkins presents the first in-depth study of the work of Edmund Husserl and Jacob Klein on the philosophical foundations of the logic of modern symbolic mathematics. Accounts of the philosophical origins of formalized concepts—especially mathematical concepts and the process of mathematical abstraction that generates them—have been paramount to the development of phenomenology. Both Husserl and Klein independently concluded that it is impossible to separate the historical origin of the thought that generates the basic concepts of mathematics from their philosophical meanings. Hopkins explores how Husserl and Klein arrived at their conclusion and its philosophical implications for the modern project of formalizing all knowledge.

Author : Edward A. Maziarz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Mathematical Philosophy written by Edward A. Maziarz and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Landin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486150410
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Algebraic Structures written by Joseph Landin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This self-contained text covers sets and numbers, elements of set theory, real numbers, the theory of groups, group isomorphism and homomorphism, theory of rings, and polynomial rings. 1969 edition.

Author : Luke Heaton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190621761
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of Mathematical Thought written by Luke Heaton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emblazoned on many advertisements for the wildly popular game of Sudoku are the reassuring words, -no mathematical knowledge required.- Anxiety about math plagues many of us, and school memories can still summon intense loathing. In A Brief History of Mathematical Thought, Luke Heaton shows that much of what many think-and fear-about mathematics is misplaced, and to overcome our insecurities we need to understand its history. To help, he offers a lively guide into and through the world of mathematics and mathematicians, one in which patterns and arguments are traced through logic in a language grounded in concrete experience. Heaton reveals how Greek and Roman mathematicians like Pythagoras, Euclid, and Archimedes helped shaped the early logic of mathematics; how the Fibonacci sequence, the rise of algebra, and the invention of calculus are connected; how clocks, coordinates, and logical padlocks work mathematically; and how, in the twentieth century, Alan Turing's revolutionary work on the concept of computation laid the groundwork for the modern world. A Brief History of Mathematical Thought situates mathematics as part of, and essential to, lived experience. Understanding it requires not abstract thought or numbing memorization but an historical imagination and a view to its origins. --

Author : Reviel Netz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521541206
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics written by Reviel Netz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-18 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to explain the shape of Greek mathematical thinking. It can be read on three levels: as a description of the practices of Greek mathematics; as a theory of the emergence of the deductive method; and as a case-study for a general view on the history of science. The starting point for the enquiry is geometry and the lettered diagram. Reviel Netz exploits the mathematicians' practices in the construction and lettering of their diagrams, and the continuing interaction between text and diagram in their proofs, to illuminate the underlying cognitive processes. A close examination of the mathematical use of language follows, especially mathematicians' use of repeated formulae. Two crucial chapters set out to show how mathematical proofs are structured and explain why Greek mathematical practice manages to be so satisfactory. A final chapter looks into the broader historical setting of Greek mathematical practice.

Author : Jacob Klein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226439594
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Commentary on Plato's Meno written by Jacob Klein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Meno, one of the most widely read of the Platonic dialogues, is seen afresh in this original interpretation that explores the dialogue as a theatrical presentation. Just as Socrates's listeners would have questioned and examined their own thinking in response to the presentation, so, Klein shows, should modern readers become involved in the drama of the dialogue. Klein offers a line-by-line commentary on the text of the Meno itself that animates the characters and conversation and carefully probes each significant turn of the argument. "A major addition to the literature on the Meno and necessary reading for every student of the dialogue."—Alexander Seasonske, Philosophical Review "There exists no other commentary on Meno which is so thorough, sound, and enlightening."—Choice Jacob Klein (1899-1978) was a student of Martin Heidegger and a tutor at St. John's College from 1937 until his death. His other works include Plato's Trilogy: Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the Statesman, also published by the University of Chicago Press.