Author: Frederick Emerson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arithmetic
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Frederick Emerson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arithmetic
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Frederick Emerson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arithmetic
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Frederick Emerson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arithmetic
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Frederick Emerson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368886398
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197

Get Book Here

Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1841.

Author: Steve Nadis
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674727894
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Get Book Here

Book Description
In the twentieth century, American mathematicians began to make critical advances in a field previously dominated by Europeans. Harvard’s mathematics department was at the center of these developments. A History in Sum is an inviting account of the pioneers who trailblazed a distinctly American tradition of mathematics—in algebraic geometry and topology, complex analysis, number theory, and a host of esoteric subdisciplines that have rarely been written about outside of journal articles or advanced textbooks. The heady mathematical concepts that emerged, and the men and women who shaped them, are described here in lively, accessible prose. The story begins in 1825, when a precocious sixteen-year-old freshman, Benjamin Peirce, arrived at the College. He would become the first American to produce original mathematics—an ambition frowned upon in an era when professors largely limited themselves to teaching. Peirce’s successors—William Fogg Osgood and Maxime Bôcher—undertook the task of transforming the math department into a world-class research center, attracting to the faculty such luminaries as George David Birkhoff. Birkhoff produced a dazzling body of work, while training a generation of innovators—students like Marston Morse and Hassler Whitney, who forged novel pathways in topology and other areas. Influential figures from around the world soon flocked to Harvard, some overcoming great challenges to pursue their elected calling. A History in Sum elucidates the contributions of these extraordinary minds and makes clear why the history of the Harvard mathematics department is an essential part of the history of mathematics in America and beyond.

Author: Frederick EMERSON
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Michael P. Closs
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292789815
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 444

Get Book Here

Book Description
There is no question that native cultures in the New World exhibit many forms of mathematical development. This Native American mathematics can best be described by considering the nature of the concepts found in a variety of individual New World cultures. Unlike modern mathematics in which numbers and concepts are expressed in a universal mathematical notation, the numbers and concepts found in native cultures occur and are expressed in many distinctive ways. Native American Mathematics, edited by Michael P. Closs, is the first book to focus on mathematical development indigenous to the New World. Spanning time from the prehistoric to the present, the thirteen essays in this volume attest to the variety of mathematical development present in the Americas. The data are drawn from cultures as diverse as the Ojibway, the Inuit (Eskimo), and the Nootka in the north; the Chumash of Southern California; the Aztec and the Maya in Mesoamerica; and the Inca and Jibaro of South America. Among the strengths of this collection are this diversity and the multidisciplinary approaches employed to extract different kinds of information. The distinguished contributors include mathematicians, linguists, psychologists, anthropologists, and archaeologists.

Author: Frederick Emerson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arithmetic
Languages : en
Pages : 58

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Nerida Ellerton
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030857247
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 462

Get Book Here

Book Description
This book presents a history of mathematic between 1607 and 1865 in that part of mainland North America which is north of Mexico but excludes the present-day Canada and Alaska. Unlike most other histories of mathematics now available, the emphasis is on the gradual emergence of "mathematics for all" programs and associated changes in thinking which drove this emergence. The book takes account of changing ideas about intended, implemented and attained mathematics curricula for learners of all ages. It also pays attention to the mathematics itself, and to how it was taught and learned.