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Stillwell J. — Yearning for the Impossible: The Surprising Truths of Mathematics
Stillwell J. — Yearning for the Impossible: The Surprising Truths of Mathematics



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Название: Yearning for the Impossible: The Surprising Truths of Mathematics

Автор: Stillwell J.

Аннотация:

This book explores the history of mathematics from the perspective of the creative tension between common sense and the "impossible" as the author follows the discovery or invention of new concepts that have marked mathematical progress:

* Irrational and Imaginary Numbers
* The Fourth Dimension
* Curved Space
* Infinity and others


The author puts these creations into a broader context involving related "impossibilities" from art, literature, philosophy, and physics. By imbedding mathematics into a broader cultural context and through his clever and enthusiastic explication of mathematical ideas the author broadens the horizon of students beyond the narrow confines of rote memorization and engages those who are curious about the place of mathematics in our intellectual landscape.


Язык: en

Рубрика: Математика/

Статус предметного указателя: Готов указатель с номерами страниц

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Год издания: 2006

Количество страниц: 250

Добавлена в каталог: 11.06.2008

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Предметный указатель
Elliptic modular function      195
Empyrean      103
Equal temperament      20 21
Equality and adequality      91
Equality by cutting and pasting      11 78
Equality of areas      10
Equality of polygons      78
Equations, cubic      30
Equations, linear      88 127
Equations, quadratic      29 88
Equidistant curve      124
Equivalence classes      186
Equivalence classes and lattices      193
Equivalence classes as infinite sets      208
Equivalence classes as points on 2-torus      193
Equivalence classes as points on a surface      195
Equivalence classes, addition of      186
Escher, Maurits Cornelius, Circle Limit IV      122
Escher, Maurits Cornelius, longing for the impossible      178
Escher, Maurits Cornelius, Waterfall      177
Euclid and distributive law      28
Euclid and parallel axiom      50 71 101
Euclid and volume of tetrahedron      81
Euclid, approach to primes      155
Euclid, axioms for geometry      126
Euclid, Elements      12 50
Euclid, proof of infinitude of primes      159
Euclid, unstated assumptions      126
Euclidean algorithm      16
Euclidean algorithm and gcd      16
Euclidean algorithm on $\sqrt{2}$ and 1      17
Euclidean algorithm, running forever      16 18
Euclidean geometry      114 125
Euclidean geometry and Kant      125
Euclidean geometry and Klein      126
Euclidean geometry and linear algebra      127
Euclidean geometry and parallels      114
Euclidean line      127
Euclidean plane      101 114
Euclidean space      126 132
Euclidean space of dimension n      135
Euclidean space, assumed by Beltrami      125
Eudoxus      13
Eudoxus and gaps in the rationals      201
Eudoxus, method of exhaustion      86
Euler, Leonhard      43
Euler, Leonhard, and complex integers      155
Euler, Leonhard, and the four-square identity      141
Euler, Leonhard, Elements of Algebra      170
Euler, Leonhard, introduced complex integers      163
Euler, Leonhard, solution of $y^3 = x^2 +2$      170
Exponential function      43
Fermat, Pierre de and adequality      91
Fermat, Pierre de and conic sections      88
Fermat, Pierre de, claim about $y^3 = x^2 + 2$      170
Fermat, Pierre de, coordinate geometry      51 71
Fermat, Pierre de, last theorem      171
Fermat, Pierre de, theorems      155
Ferrari, Lodovico      41
fibonacci      35
Fifth (musical interval)      2
Finite proofs      198
Finite universe      104 198
Flatness      101 102 108
Flatness and angle sum      114
Flatness and Gaussian curvature      117
Flatness of cylinder      109 182
Fluxions      99
Four-square identity and multiplicative absolute value      140
Four-square identity, encapsulates quaternions      140
Four-square theorem      139
Fourier, Joseph      191
Fourth (musical interval)      2
Fourth dimension      xi 129 136
Franklin, Benjamin      156
frequency      3
Frequency and pitch      3
Frobenius, Georg      140
Function      99
Function of time      100
Function, circular      190
Function, complex      191
Function, constant      100
Function, elliptic      191
Function, elliptic modular      195
Function, exponential      43
Function, periodic      190
Fundamental theorem of algebra      41
Fundamental theorem of calculus      96
Galileo Galilei      34
gaps      201
Gauss, Carl Friedrich      38
Gauss, Carl Friedrich, and elliptic functions      191
Gauss, Carl Friedrich, and fundamental theorem of algebra      42
Gauss, Carl Friedrich, and non-Euclidean geometry      115
Gauss, Carl Friedrich, and non-Euclidean periodicity      194
Gauss, Carl Friedrich, and quaternions      141 144
Gauss, Carl Friedrich, and surface curvature      114
Gauss, Carl Friedrich, angle sum theorem      112
Gauss, Carl Friedrich, complex two-square identity      141
Gauss, Carl Friedrich, introduced Gaussian integers      163
Gauss, Carl Friedrich, on infinity      199
Gauss, Carl Friedrich, surveying      109
GCD      16 160
gcd of complex integers      173
gcd of complex primes      155
gcd of integers      160
General relativity      127 213
Geodesies      109
Geodesies on cylinder      109
Geodesies on sphere      111
Geodesies, behavior of      109
Geodesies, mapped to lines      119
Geometric series      83
Geometric series and the evaluation of n      96
Geometry of constant curvature      127
Geometry of Euclid      12 73 125
Geometry of negative curvature      126
Geometry of zero curvature      126
Geometry, algebraic      87
Geometry, arithmetization of      126
Geometry, axiom systems      126
Geometry, coordinate      51 71 87
Geometry, dimension of      127
Geometry, Euclidean      114 125
Geometry, Euclidean plane      114
Geometry, Euclidean plane, holds on horosphere      116
Geometry, Euclidean, and parallels      114
Geometry, four-dimensional      129
Geometry, hyperbolic      116 195
Geometry, hyperbolic, and parallel axiom      126
Geometry, incidence      60
Geometry, infinitesimal      85
Geometry, non-Euclidean      101 114 119 126
Geometry, projective      61
Geometry, projective, axioms      76
Geometry, spherical      111 112 116
Geometry, spherical, formula for circumference      116
Geometry, spherical, in non-Euclidean space      116
Geometry, split with number theory      12
Girard, Albert      41
Global positioning systems      125 127
Goedel, Kurt      212
Graves, John      140
Graves, Robert      55
Gravity      127
Great circle      109
Great circle, projected to line      119
Greatest common divisor      see gcd
Greene, Brian      190 213
Gunn, Charlie      124
Hadamard, Jacques      41 156 211
Hamilton, William Rowan      130
Hamilton, William Rowan, abandoned commutative law      136
Hamilton, William Rowan, and space rotations      144
Harnack, Adolf      202
Harriot, Thomas      107
Harriot, Thomas, angle sum theorem      112
Helix      110
Hermite, Charles      207
Hilbert, David      68
Hilbert, David, and area of polygons      79
Hilbert, David, and mathematical existence      212
Hilbert, David, and the Desargues theorem      72
Hilbert, David, Geometry and the Imagination      151
Hilbert, David, Grundlagen dei Geometrie      126
Hilbert, David, Mathematical Problems      212
Hipparchus      107
Hobbes, Thomas      98
Hobbes, Thomas, attempt to square the circle      99
Holmes, Oliver Wendell      69
Holmes, Sherlock      86
Horizon      47
Horosphere      116
Hyperbolic cosine      116
Hyperbolic geometry      116 195
Hyperbolic geometry and axiom systems      126
Hyperbolic geometry and parallel axiom      126
Hyperbolic plane      116 119 121
Hyperbolic plane, model of      121
Hyperbolic plane, tilings of      195
Hyperbolic sine      116
Hyperbolic space      123 189
icosahedron      144
Icosahedron symmetry      146
Ideal      172 173
Ideal as an infinite set      208
Ideal factor      173
Ideal number      173
Ideal points      48
Ideal product      175
Ideal, nonprincipal      174
Ideal, prime      155 172
Ideal, principal      173
Identity Law      70
Identity, additive      70
Identity, Diophantus      35
Identity, Diophantus, and multiplicative norm      167
Identity, eight-square      140
Identity, four-square      140
Identity, multiplicative      70 133
Identity, symmetry      147
Identity, three-square      132
Identity, two-square      34 130 140
Identity, two-square, complex      141
Imaginary      xi
Imaginary number      xi see
Impossibilities, actual      211
Impossibilities, apparent      211
Incidence and coincidence      61
Incidence axioms      60
Incidence geometry      60
Incommensurable      10
Indivisibles      98
Infinite decimals      15 209
Infinite decimals, introduced by Stevin      15
Infinite lines      50
Infinite object      198
Infinite processes      15 198
Infinite sequence      199
Infinite series for $\pi$      208
Infinite set      197
Infinite space      102 198
Infinite sum      83
Infinite, completed      200
Infinitesimal      77
Infinitesimal as a figure of speech      99
Infinitesimal as a function of time      100
Infinitesimal calculus      87 100
Infinitesimal difference      90
Infinitesimal geometry      85
Infinitesimal line segments      126
Infinitesimal sectors      87
Infinitesimal slices      98
Infinity and infinitesimals      99
Infinity, actual      199 201 202
Infinity, line at      55
Infinity, perpendicular at      115
Infinity, points at      48 55
Infinity, potential      199 201
Inner product      76
INTEGER      26 155
Integer, complex      155
Integer, division property      159
Integer, Gaussian      163
Integer, Gaussian, division property      165
Integer, negative      26
Integer, point      51
Integer, positive      156
Integral sign      93
Inverse law      70
Inverse, additive      70 131
Inverse, multiplicative      70
Irrational      xi
Irrational and decimal fractions      13
Irrational and ratio      1
Irrational angle      168
Irrational as a gap in the rationals      7 13
Irrational number      xi
Irrational origin of word      9
Irrational points      197
Irrational roots of 2      162
Irrational triangles      7
Irrationality and Euclidean algorithm      18
Irrationality and theory of volume      11
Irrationality in geometry      10
Irrationality of $2^{1/12}$      21
Irrationality of $\sqrt{2}$      9
Jacobi, Carl Gustav      195
Kant, Immanuel      125
Klein, Felix      125 195
Kolmogorov, Andrei Nikolaevich      xi 211
Kummer, Ernst Eduard      155
Kummer, Ernst Eduard, and Fermat's last theorem      171
Kummer, Ernst Eduard, on imperfect complex integers      169
L'Hopital, Guillaume Francois Antoine      91
Lattice      164
Lattice and doubly periodic plane      192
Lattice of multiples      164 173
Lattice, shapes      193
Lattice, shapes, plane of      193
Laws of algebra      33 69
Laws of algebra and projective coincidences      72
Laws of algebra, associative      70
Laws of algebra, commutative      70
Laws of algebra, distributive      26 70
Laws of algebra, follow from Pappus theorem      75
Laws of algebra, identity      70
Laws of algebra, inverse      70
Legendre, Adrien-Marie      132 140
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm      90 99
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, calculus notation      99
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, calculus of infinitesimals      100
Length and absolute value      35 38
Length and area of circle      85
Length and multiplication      63
Length in proof of Pappus theorem      63
Length of a countable set      203
Length of curves      77 191
Length of ellipse      191
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