History of Modern Mathematics

David Eugene Smith

J. Wiley & Sons, 1906 - Mathematics - 81 pages

Contents

• INTRODUCTION Page: 7
• THEORY OF NUMBERS n 3 IRRATIONAL AND TRANSCENDENT NUMBERS: 13
• 4 COMPLEX NUMBERS: 15
• QUATERNIONS AND AUSDEHNUNGSLEHRE: 17
• THEORY OF EQUATIONS: 19
• SUBSTITUTIONS AND GROUPS: 24
• DETERMINANTS: 26
• QUANTICS: 28
• CALCULUS: 31
• DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS: 35
• INFINITE SERIES: 39
• THEORY OF FUNCTIONS: 43
• PROBABILITIES AND LEAST SQUARES: 50
• ANALYTIC GEOMETRY: 52
• MODERN GEOMETRY: 58
• TRIGONOMETRY AND ELEMENTARY GEOMETRY: 63
• NONEUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY: 65
• BIBLIOGRAPHY: 68
• 20 GENERAL TENDENCIES: 74

Bibliographic information

• Title: History of Modern Mathematics; Issue 1 of Mathematical monographs; Cornell University Library historical math monographs; Issue 1 of Translations of mathematical monographs
• Author: David Eugene Smith
• Edition: 4, reprint
• Publisher: J. Wiley & Sons, 1906
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Mar 24, 2009
• Length: 81 pages