Journey through genius: (Record no. 22130)

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020 ## - ISBN
International Standard Book Number 9780140147391
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency Indian Institute of Management Raipur
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Classification number 510.9
Book Number DUN-91
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Personal name Dunham, William
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Journey through genius:
Sub Title the great theorems of Mathematics /
Statement of responsibility William Dunham
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc United States of America:
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Penguin,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1991
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Pages xiii, 300p.
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General note Journey through Genius - William Dunham Preface<br/>Acknowledgments<br/>Chapter 1. Hippocrates' Quadrature of the Lune (ca. 440 B.C.)<br/>The Appearance of Demonstrative Mathematics<br/>Some Remarks on Quadrature<br/>Great Theorem<br/>Epilogue<br/>Chapter 2. Euclid's Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem (ca. 300 B.C.)<br/>The Elements of Euclid<br/>Book I: Preliminaries<br/>Book I: The Early Propositions<br/>Book I: Parallelism and Related Topics<br/>Great Theorem<br/>Epilogue<br/>Chapter 3. Euclid and the Infinitude of Primes (ca. 300 B.C.)<br/>The Elements, Books II-VI<br/>Number Theory in Euclid<br/>Great Theorem<br/>The Final Books of the Elements<br/>Epilogue<br/>Chapter 4. Archimedes' Determination of Circular Area (ca. 225 B.C.)<br/>The Life of Archimedes<br/>Great Theorem<br/>Archimedes' Masterpiece: On the Sphere and the Cylinder<br/>Epilogue<br/>Chapter 5. Heron's Formula for Triangular Area (ca. A.D. 75)<br/>Classical Mathematics after Archimedes<br/>Great Theorem<br/>Epilogue<br/>Chapter 6. Cardano and the Solution of the Cubic (1545)<br/>A Horatio Algebra Story<br/>Great Theorem<br/>Further Topics on Solving Equations<br/>Epilogue<br/>Chapter 7. A Gem from Isaac Newton (Late 1660s)<br/>Mathematics of the Heroic Century<br/>A Mind Unleashed<br/>Newton's Binomial Theorem<br/>Great Theorem<br/>Epilogue<br/>Chapter 8. The Bernoullis and the Harmonic Series (1689)<br/>The Contributions of Leibniz<br/>The Brothers Bernoulli<br/>Great Theorem<br/>The Challenge of the Brachistochrone<br/>Epilogue<br/>Chapter 9. The Extraordinary Sums of Leonhard Euler (1734)<br/>The Master of All Mathematical Trades<br/>Great Theorem<br/>Epilogue<br/>Chapter 10. A Sampler of Euler's Number Theory (1736)<br/>The Legacy of Fermat<br/>Great Theorem<br/>Epilogue<br/>Chapter 11. The Non-Denumerability of the Continuum (1874)<br/>Mathematics of the Nineteenth Century<br/>Cantor and the Challenge of the Infinite<br/>Great Theorem<br/>Epilogue<br/>Chapter 12. Cantor and the Transfinite Realm (1891)<br/>The Nature of Infinite Cardinals<br/>Great Theorem<br/>Epilogue<br/>Afterword<br/>Chapter Notes<br/>References<br/>Index<br/>
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Subject Physics and Astronomy
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Subject Mathematics of the Heroic Century
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