Mathematics — The Music of Reason

Jean Dieudonne

Springer Science & Business Media, Jul 20, 1998 - Mathematics - 287 pages

This book is of interest for students of mathematics or of neighboring subjects like physics, engineering, computer science, and also for people who have at least school level mathematics and have kept some interest in it. Also good for younger readers just reaching their final school year of mathematics.

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Contents

• II: 7
• III: 8
• IV: 12
• V: 14
• VI: 19
• VII: 21
• IX: 25
• X: 26
• XI: 28
• XII: 29
• XIII: 31
• XIV: 33
• XV: 35
• XVI: 37
• XVII: 41
• XVIII: 45
• XIX: 49
• XX: 51
• XXI: 56
• XXII: 64
• XXIII: 65
• XXIV: 68
• XXV: 70
• XXVI: 72
• XXVII: 77
• XXIX: 78
• XXX: 79
• XXXI: 80
• XXXII: 82
• XXXIII: 86
• XXXIV: 91
• XXXV: 93
• XXXVI: 95
• XXXVII: 98
• XXXVIII: 103
• XXXIX: 105
• XL: 108
• XLI: 111
• XLII: 113
• XLIII: 118
• XLIV: 119
• XLV: 120
• XLVI: 121
• XLVII: 124
• XLVIII: 128
• XLIX: 129
• L: 133
• LI: 134
• LII: 136
• LIII: 139
• LIV: 141
• LV: 142
• LVI: 146
• LVII: 149
• LVIII: 150
• LIX: 152
• LX: 161
• LXII: 163
• LXIII: 167
• LXIV: 168
• LXV: 169
• LXVI: 170
• LXVII: 172
• LXVIII: 174
• LXIX: 176
• LXX: 179
• LXXI: 181
• LXXII: 183
• LXXIII: 184
• LXXIV: 187
• LXXV: 190
• LXXVI: 191
• LXXVII: 192
• LXXVIII: 195
• LXXIX: 199
• LXXX: 200
• LXXXI: 203
• LXXXII: 204
• LXXXIII: 207
• LXXXIV: 208
• LXXXV: 213
• LXXXVI: 215
• LXXXVII: 216
• LXXXVIII: 218
• LXXXIX: 220
• XC: 222
• XCI: 224
• XCII: 226
• XCIII: 228
• XCIV: 229
• XCV: 230
• XCVI: 233
• XCVII: 234
• XCVIII: 235
• XCIX: 239
• C: 241
• CI: 245
• CII: 246
• CIV: 247
• CV: 248
• CVI: 250
• CVII: 253
• CVIII: 255
• CIX: 281
• CX: 282

Popular passages

Page v - Il est vrai que M. Fourier avait l'opinion que le but principal des Mathématiques était l'utilité publique et l'explication des phénomènes naturels; mais un philosophe comme lui aurait dû savoir que le but unique de la Science, c'est l'honneur de l'esprit humain, et que sous ce titre une question de nombres vaut autant qu'une question du système du monde.

Page v - Algebraical Researches, Containing a Disquisition on Newton's Rule for the Discovery of Imaginary Roots, and an Allied Rule Applicable to a Particular Class of Equations, Together with a Complete Invariantive Determination of the Character of the Roots of the General Equation of the Fifth Degree, &c," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 154 (1864): 579666, and Math.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Mathematics — The Music of Reason
• Author: Jean Dieudonne
• Translated by: H.G. Dales, J.C. Dales
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media, 1998
• ISBN: 354053346X, 9783540533467
• Length: 287 pages
• Subjects: Mathematics / General