Dunham The Calculus Gallery

Masterpieces from Newton to Lebesgue
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6679-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Dunham, William

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Geschichte der Mathematik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematische Analysis
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Philosophie der Mathematik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xiii

INTRODUCTION 1

CHAPTER 1: Newton 5

CHAPTER 2: Leibniz 20

CHAPTER 3: The Bernoullis 35

CHAPTER 4: Euler 52

CHAPTER 5: First Interlude 69

CHAPTER 6: Cauchy 76

CHAPTER 7: Riemann 96

CHAPTER 8: Liouville 116

CHAPTER 9: Weierstrass 128

CHAPTER 10: Second Interlude 149

CHAPTER 11: Cantor 158

CHAPTER 12: Volterra 170

CHAPTER 13: Baire 183

CHAPTER 14: Lebesgue 200

Afterword 220

Notes 223

Index 233

Über Autor(innen)

William Dunham, Koehler Professor of Mathematics at Muhlenberg College, is the author of Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics; The Mathematical Universe; and Euler: The Master of Us All. He has received the Mathematical Association of America's George Pólya, Trevor Evans, and Lester R. Ford awards, as well as its Beckenbach Prize for expository writing.