Excursions in the History of Mathematics

Israel Kleiner ()
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Israel Kleiner: York University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics

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Date: 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8176-8268-2
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Ch Chapter 1 Highlights in the History of Number Theory: 1700 BC– 2008

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Ch Chapter 10 Proof: A Many-Splendored Thing

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Ch Chapter 11 Numbers as a Source of Mathematical Ideas

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Ch Chapter 12 History of Complex Numbers, with a Moral for Teachers

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Ch Chapter 13 A History-of-Mathematics Course for Teachers, Based on Great Quotations

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Ch Chapter 14 Famous Problems in Mathematics

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Ch Chapter 15 The Biographies

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Ch Chapter 2 Fermat: The Founder of Modern Number Theory

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Ch Chapter 3 Fermat’s Last Theorem: From Fermat to Wiles

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Ch Chapter 4 History of the Infinitely Small and the Infinitely Large in Calculus, with Remarks for the Teacher

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Ch Chapter 5 A Brief History of the Function Concept

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Ch Chapter 6 More on the History of Functions, with Remarks on Teaching

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Ch Chapter 7 Highlights in the Practice of Proof: 1600 BC–2009

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Ch Chapter 8 Paradoxes: What Are They Good For?

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Ch Chapter 9 Principle of Continuity: Sixteenth–Nineteenth Centuries

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