Mathematics
Mathematics
Queen and Servant of Science
E. T. Bell
September 1996
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An absorbing account of pure and applied mathematics from the geometry of Euclid to that of Riemann, and its application in Einstein's theory of relativity. The twenty chapters cover such topics as: algebra, number theory, logic, probability, infinite sets and the foundations of mathematics, rings, matrices, transformations, groups, geometry, and topology. Mathematics was republished in 1987 with corrections and an added foreword by Martin Gardner.
- Foreword by Martin Gardner
- Reissue of famous overview of mathematics
Reviews & endorsements
'The book deserves a place in today's market. It is rewarding reading for teachers and students at all mathematical levels.' Morris Kline
Product details
September 1996Paperback
9780883854471
463 pages
215 × 141 × 34 mm
0.536kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. Points of view
- 2. Mathematical truth
- 3. Breaking bounds
- 4. 'The same, yet not the same'
- 5. The art of abstraction
- 6. Oaks from acorns
- 7. Pictorial thinking
- 8. Landmarks old and new
- 9. Groups
- 10. A metrical universe
- 11. The queen of mathematics
- 12. Abstraction and prediction
- 13. From cyzius to neptune
- 14. Two kinds of picture
- 15. The chief instrument of applied mathematics
- 16. Further calculuses
- 17. Waves and vibrations
- 18. Choice and chance
- 19. 'Storming the heavens'
- 20. Bedrock.
