Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XVIII, 398 p)
ISBN:
9781461210054
,
9780387974972
Series Statement:
Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Readings in Mathematics 123
Note:
A book about numbers sounds rather dull. This one is not. Instead it is a lively story about one thread of mathematics- the concept of "number" told by eight authors and organized into a historical narrative that leads the reader from ancient Egypt to the late twentieth century. It is a story that begins with some of the simplest ideas of mathematics and ends with some of the most complex. It is a story that mathematicians, both amateur and professional, ought to know. Why write about numbers? Mathematicians have always found it difficult to develop broad perspective about their subject. While we each view our specialty as having roots in the past, and sometimes having connections to other specialties in the present, we seldom see the panorama of mathematical development over thousands of years. Numbers attempts to give that broad perspective, from hieroglyphs to K-theory, from Dedekind cuts to nonstandard analysis
Language:
English
Keywords:
Zahlensystem
;
Geschichte
;
Zahlentheorie
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4612-1005-4
Author information:
Remmert, Reinhold 1930-2016
Author information:
Koecher, Max 1924-1990
Author information:
Ebbinghaus, Heinz-Dieter 1939-
Author information:
Mainzer, Klaus 1947-
Author information:
Prestel, Alexander 1941-
Author information:
Hirzebruch, Friedrich 1927-2012
Author information:
Neukirch, Jürgen 1937-1997
Author information:
Hermes, Hans 1912-2003
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