04728nam a2200385 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020002500112020001500137020002700152040002100179035002100200050002300221082001400244245015300258246006800411260006900479300002200548490002000570504005100590505324600641533015203887650002604039655002904065700002904094700002004123700002104143710001704164830001804181856012604199999001704325ebr10722449CaPaEBRm     o  u        cr cn|||||||||080814s2009    dcua    sb    001 0 eng d  z  2008935288  z9780883855690 (hbk.)  z0883855690  z9781614445043 (e-book)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)81796268014aQA21b.W336 2009eb04a510.922200aWho gave you the epsilon?h[electronic resource] :band other tales of mathematical history /cedited by Marlow Anderson, Victor Katz, Robin Wilson.14aWho gave you the epsilon? & other tales of mathematical history  aWashington, D.C. :bMathematical Association of America,cc2009.  ax, 431 p. :bill.1 aSpectrum series  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.00g[Pt. 1.] Analysis --tWho gave you the epsilon? : Cauchy and the origins of rigorous calculus /rJudith V. Grabiner --tEvolution of the function concept : a brief survey /rIsrael Kleiner --tS. Kovalevsky : a mathematical lesson /rKaren D. Rappaport --tHighlights in the history of spectral theory /rL.A. Steen --tAlan Turing and the central limit theorem /rS.L. Zabell --tWhy did George Green write his essay of 1828 on electricity and magnetism? /rI. Grattan-Guinness --tConnectivity and smoke-rings : Green's second identity in its first fifty years /rThomas Archibald --tThe history of Stokes' theorem /rVictor J. Katz --tThe mathematical collaboration of M.L. Cartwright and J.E. Littlewood /rShawnee L. McMurran andrJames J. Tattersall --tDr. David Harold Blackwell, African American pioneer /rNkechi Agwu,rLuella Smith andrAissatou Barry --g[pt. 2.] Geometry, topology and foundations --tGauss and the non-Euclidean geometry /rGeorge Bruce Halsted --tHistory of the parallel postulate /rFlorence P. Lewis --tThe rise and fall of projective geometry /rJ.L. Coolidge --tNotes on the history of geometrical ideas /rDan Pedoe --tA note on the history of the Cantor set and Cantor function /rJulian F. Fleron --tEvolution of the topological concept of "connected" /rR.L. Wilder --tA brief, subjective history of homology and homotopy theory in this century /rPeter Hilton --tThe origins of modern axiomatics : Pasch to Peano /rH.C. Kennedy --tC.S. Pierce's philosophy of infinite sets /rJoseph W. Dauben --tOn the development of logics between the two world wars /rI. Grattan-Guinness --tDedekind's theorem : [square root of 2] x [square root of 3] = [square root of 6] /rDavid Fowler --g[pt. 3.] Algebra and number theory --tHamilton's discovery of quaternions /rB.L. van der Waerden --tHamilton, Rodrigues, and the quaternion scandal /rSimon L. Altmann --tBuilding an international reputation : the case of J.J. Sylvester (1814-1897) /rKaren Hunger Parshall andrEugene Seneta --tThe foundation period in the history of group theory /rJosephine E. Burns --tThe evolution of group theory : a brief survey /rIsrael Kleiner --tThe search for finite simple groups /rJoseph A. Gallian --tGenius and biographers : the fictionalization of Evariste Galois /rTony Rothman --tHermann Grassmann and the creation of linear algebra /rDesmond Fearnley-Sander --tThe roots of commutative algebra in algebraic number theory /rIsrael Kleiner --tEisenstein's misunderstood geometric proof of the quadratic reciprocity theorem /rReinhard C. Laubenbacher andrDavid J. Pengelley --tWaring's problem /rCharles Small --tA history of the prime number theorem /rL.J. Goldstein --tA hundred years of prime numbers /rPaul T. Bateman andrHarold G. Diamond --tThe Indian mathematician Ramanujan /rG.H. Hardy --tEmmy Noether /rClark H. Kimberling --t"A marvelous proof" /rFernando Q. Gouv�ea --g[pt. 4.] Surveys --tThe International Congress of Mathematicians /rGeorge Bruce Halsted --tA popular account of some new fields of thought in mathematics /rG.A. Miller --tA half-century of mathematics /rHermann Weyl --tMathematics at the turn of the millennium /rPhilip A. Griffiths.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2013.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aMathematicsxHistory. 7aElectronic books.2local1 aAnderson, Marlow,d1950-1 aKatz, Victor J.1 aWilson, Robin J.2 aebrary, Inc. 0aMAA spectrum.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10722449zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c39367d39367