Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus: Numbers

Cover: 9780387974972 | Numbers | Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | xviii | 1990

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Beschreibung

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.

Zusammenfassung

To be used for a reading course or as a supplemental text for a course in number theory.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A. From the Natural Numbers, to the Complex Numbers, to the p-adics.- 1. Natural Numbers, Integers, and Rational Numbers.- 2. Real Numbers.- 3. Complex Numbers.- 4. The Fundamental Theorem of Algebr.- 5. What is ??.- 6. The p-Adic Numbers.- B. Real Division Algebras.- Repertory. Basic Concepts from the Theory of Algebras.- 7. Hamilton's Quaternions.- 8. The Isomorphism Theorems of FROBENIUS, HOPF and GELFAND-MAZUR.- 9. CAYLEY Numbers or Alternative Division Algebras.- 10. Composition Algebras. HURWITZ's Theorem-Vector-Product Algebras.- 11. Division Algebras and Topology.- C. Infinitesimals, Games, and Sets.- 12. Nonsiandard Analysis.- 13. Numbers and Games.- 14. Set Theory and Mathematics.- Name Index.- Portraits of Famous Mathematicians.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	1990
Fachbereich:	Arithmetik & Algebra
Genre:	Importe , Mathematik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xviii 398 S.
ISBN-13:	9780387974972
ISBN-10:	0387974970
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Ebbinghaus, Heinz-Dieter Hirzebruch, Friedrich Prestel, Alexander Neukirch, Jürgen Hermes, Hans Remmert, Reinhold Koecher, Max Mainzer, Klaus
Redaktion:	Ewing, John H.
Herausgeber:	John H Ewing
Übersetzung:	Orde, H. L. S.
Hersteller:	Springer US Springer New York Springer US, New York, N.Y.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	233 x 155 x 23 mm
Von/Mit:	Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.12.1990
Gewicht:	0,628 kg