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Excursions in the History of Mathematics

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Highlights in the History of Number Theory: 1700 BC– 2008
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    Chapter 2 Fermat: The Founder of Modern Number Theory
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    Chapter 3 Fermat’s Last Theorem: From Fermat to Wiles
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    Chapter 4 History of the Infinitely Small and the Infinitely Large in Calculus, with Remarks for the Teacher
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    Chapter 5 A Brief History of the Function Concept
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    Chapter 6 More on the History of Functions, with Remarks on Teaching
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    Chapter 7 Highlights in the Practice of Proof: 1600 BC–2009
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    Chapter 8 Paradoxes: What Are They Good For?
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    Chapter 9 Principle of Continuity: Sixteenth–Nineteenth Centuries
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    Chapter 10 Proof: A Many-Splendored Thing
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    Chapter 11 Numbers as a Source of Mathematical Ideas
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    Chapter 12 History of Complex Numbers, with a Moral for Teachers
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    Chapter 13 A History-of-Mathematics Course for Teachers, Based on Great Quotations
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    Chapter 14 Famous Problems in Mathematics
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    Chapter 15 The Biographies
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Chapter title
The Biographies
Chapter number 15
Book title
Excursions in the History of Mathematics
Published by
Birkhäuser Boston, January 2012
DOI 10.1007/978-0-8176-8268-2_15
Book ISBNs
978-0-8176-8267-5, 978-0-8176-8268-2
Authors

Israel Kleiner, Kleiner, Israel

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