A brief history of mathematical thought
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 muc...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Beginnings
- From Greece to Rome
- Ratio and proportion
- The rise of algebra
- Mechanics and the calculus
- Leonhard Euler and the bridges of Königsberg
- Euclid's fifth and the reinvention of geometry
- Working with the infinite
- The structures of logical form
- Alan Turing and the concept of computation
- Kurt Gödel and the power of polynomials
- Modelling the world
- Lived experience and the nature of facts.
