Numbers / H.-D. Ebbinghaus ... [et al.] ; with an introduction by K. Lamotke ; translated by H.L.S. Orde ; edited by J.H. Ewing..
Contributor(s): Ebbinghaus, Heinz-Dieter
| Ewing, John H.
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BookSeries: Graduate texts in mathematics: 123.; Graduate texts in mathematicsReadings in mathematics: Publisher: New York : Springer, c1991 ((1995 printing))Description: xviii, 391 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0387974970 .Subject(s): Number theoryDDC classification: 512.7 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 512.7 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00012036 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 diffi cult to develop broad perspective about their subject. While we each view our specialty as having roots in the past, and sometimes having connec tions 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.
"Corrected third printing"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Part A: From the natural numbers, to the complex numbers, to the p-adics -- Part B: Real division algebras -- Part C: Infinitesimals, games and sets.