INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0471648779 (cloth : acid-free paper)
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Country Code
IR
Number
E-7258
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION OR PRODUCTlON
Country of publication
IR
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Great feuds in mathematics
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
:ten of the liveliest disputes ever
First Statement of Responsibility
/ Hal Hellman
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Hoboken, N.J.
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: John Wiley
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
vi, 250 p. , 24 cm.
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Text of Note
Print
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Tartaglia versus Cardano. Solving cubic equations -- Descartes versus Fermat. Analytic geometry and optics -- Newton versus Leibniz. Credit for the calculus -- Bernoulli versus Bernoulli. Sibling rivalry of the highest order -- Sylvester versus Huxley. Ivory tower or real world? -- Kronecker versus Cantor. Mathematical insanity -- Borel versus Zermelo. The "notorious axiom" -- Poincar versus Russell. The logical foundations of mathematics -- Hilbert versus Brouwer. Formalism versus intuitionism -- Absolutists/platonists versus fallibilists/constructionists. Are mathematical advances discoveries or inventions?
Text of Note
Tartaglia versus Cardano. Solving cubic equations -- Descartes versus Fermat. Analytic geometry and optics -- Newton versus Leibniz. Credit for the calculus -- Bernoulli versus Bernoulli. Sibling rivalry of the highest order -- Sylvester versus Huxley. Ivory tower or real world? -- Kronecker versus Cantor. Mathematical humbug -- Borel versus Zermelo. The "notorious axiom" -- Poincarae versus Russell. The logical foundations of mathematics -- Hilbert versus Brouwer. Formalism versus intuitionism -- Absolutists/platonists versus fallibilists/constructionists. Are mathematical advances discoveries or inventions?
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Mathematics- History
Mathematicians- History
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
QA21
Book number
.
H45
2006
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Hellman, Hal,1927-
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Country
ایران
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