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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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Length, constructible      207
Length, hyperbolic      123
Leverrier, Urbain lean Joseph      33
LIMIT      90 99
Limit and properties of U      208
Limit of a ratio      99
Limit of a sum      100
Lindemann, Ferdinand      207 208
Line as a set of points      197
Line, asymptotic      115
Line, asymptotic, on pseudosphere      119
Line, Dedekind definition      202
Line, equation of      53 88
Line, Euclidean      127
Line, non-Euclidean      115
Line, nonstandard      125
Line, real number      26
Line, slope of      53
Liouville, Joseph      206
Little Desargues theorem      66
Lobachevsky, Nikolai      115
Lobachevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich      119 125
Local and global      180
Lowenheim, Leopold      212
Lucretius      102 103 198
Machin, John      84
Magnitudes      10
Magnitudes as numbers      12
Magritte, Rene      183
Manifolds      188
Method of exhaustion      86
Minding, Ferdinand      119
Model of consistent sentences      212
Model of hyperbolic plane      121
Model, conformal      122
Model, half-plane      123
Model, Klein construction      125
Model, projective      121 123 127
Moonshine      213
Motion      200
Moufang, Ruth      66 69
Moufang, Ruth, and little Desargues theorem      72
Multiplication in projective geometry      72
Multiplication in proof of Pappus theorem      63
Multiplication of lengths      63
Multiplication of negative numbers      26
Multiplication of quaternions      138
Multiplication, audible      37
Multiplication, audible and visible      38
Multiplication, geometry of      36 193
Multiplication, induces rotation      38
Multiplication, perceived as addition      4
Multiplication, visible      37
Multiplicative, absolute value      35 129 130
Multiplicative, absolute value, and four-square identity      140
Multiplicative, absolute value, for quaternions      131
Multiplicative, identity      70 133
Multiplicative, inverse      70
Multiplicative, norm      166
Musical intervals      2
Nahin, Paul      43
Needham, Joseph      22
Needham, Tristan      43
Neptune      33
Newton, Isaac      44 62 99
Newton, Isaac, and motion      200
Newton, Isaac, and tractrix      118
Newton, Isaac, definition of curvature      116
Nicomachus      2
Non-Euclidean circle      116
Non-Euclidean cylinder      119
Non-Euclidean geometry      101 114 119 126
Non-Euclidean geometry and Kant      125
Non-Euclidean line      115
Non-Euclidean periodicity      189 193 195
Non-Euclidean plane      116 119 125
Non-Euclidean plane, called hyperbolic      121
Non-Euclidean space      116
Nonstandard analysis      91 100
Norm of complex integers      170
Norm of Gaussian integer      166
Norm, multiplicative property      166
Number line      25 26
Number theory      12
Numbers and magnitudes      12
Numbers, algebraic      205
Numbers, algebraic, form a countable set      200 206
Numbers, complex      25
Numbers, complex, and rotations      141
Numbers, complex, arithmetic of      34
Numbers, complex, as pairs      130
Numbers, complex, in geometry      127
Numbers, complex, plane of      37
Numbers, complex, rational      30
Numbers, constructible      208
Numbers, hypercomplex      45
Numbers, ideal      173
Numbers, ideal, represented by infinite sets      198
numbers, imaginary      xi 25 27 29
Numbers, imaginary, and quadratic equations      29
Numbers, irrational      xi 12 99 162
Numbers, irrational, as gaps      202
Numbers, irrational, in China      22
Numbers, irrational, set of      201
Numbers, natural      1 155 156 197 199
Numbers, natural, in Elements      12
Numbers, natural, in geometry      6
Numbers, natural, set of      199
numbers, negative      25 26
Numbers, nonalgebraic      197
Numbers, normal      209
Numbers, prime      12 76 155
Numbers, rational      10
Numbers, rational, as periodic decimals      20
Numbers, rational, form a countable set      200
Numbers, real      27 127
Numbers, real, almost all irrational      203
Numbers, real, almost all normal      209
Numbers, real, almost all transcendental      207
Numbers, three-dimensional?      127
Numbers, transcendental      xi 206
Numbers, two-dimensional      129
octahedron      144
Octahedron symmetry      145
Octave (musical interval)      2
Octave (musical interval) in the universe?      189
Octave (musical interval), division of      162
Octave (musical interval), non-Euclidean      189 193 195
Octave (musical interval), one-dimensional      190
Octonions      140
Origin      51 87
Pappus      63
Pappus theorem      63
Pappus theorem as an axiom      65
Pappus theorem, proof      64
parabola      87 88
Parallel axiom      49 101
Parallel axiom and angles      50
Parallel axiom and coordinates      51 71
Parallel axiom of Bolyai and Lobachevsky      126
Parallel axiom of Euclid      126
Parallel axiom, consequences      50 110
Parallel axiom, independence      125
Parallel axiom, separates geometries      126
Parallel lines      49
Parallel lines and Euclidean geometry      114
Parallel lines and vision      54
Parallel lines have same slope      54
Parallel lines in hyperbolic plane      101
Parallel lines in projective plane      61
Parallel lines meet on horizon      48
Parallel lines, axioms for      126
Parallelepiped      80
Pascal, Blaise      62
Pascal, Blaise, theorem      62
Pascal, Etienne      62
Pelerin, Jean      57
Penrose, Lionel      179
Penrose, Roger      179
Pentagons      124
Periodic functions      190
Periodic line      187
Periodic plane      181
Periodic plane of lattice shapes      193
Periodic space      177 188
Periodicity and topology      187
Periodicity in continued fractions      19
Periodicity in Euclidean algorithm      16 18
Periodicity in infinite decimals      19
Periodicity in the plane and space      182
Periodicity, double      191
Periodicity, history of      190
Perspective      47
Perspective, view of line      182
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista      179
Pitch      3
Plane of lattice shapes      193
Plane, doubly periodic      191
Plane, Euclidean      101 114
Plane, hyperbolic      101 119 121
Plane, hyperbolic, in Escher pictures      122
Plane, non-Euclidean      116 119
Plane, non-Euclidean, periodic      193
Plane, periodic      181
Plane, projective      61
Plane, rotation      141
Plimpton 322      6
Plimpton 322 and rational angles      168
Plimpton 322 and rational complex numbers      40
Poincare, Henri      127 195
Poincare, Henri, conjecture      195
POLYGONS      77
Polygons with two sides      177 181
Polygons, area of      77
Polygons, equality of      78
Polyhedra      77 129
Polyhedra, regular      144
Polyhedra, regular, in the Elements      144
Polyhedra, volume of      77
Polynomials      42 44
Polynomials and algebraic numbers      205
Polynomials, complex factors of      44
Polynomials, real factors of      44
Polytopes      129 151
Polytopes, regular      149
Prime      155 156
Prime, complex      155
Prime, divisor property      161
Prime, divisor property, failure      172
Prime, divisor property, Gaussian      168
Prime, factorization, existence      157
Prime, factorization, Gaussian      166
Prime, factorization, unique      155 157 167
Prime, Gaussian      163 166
Prime, ideal      155 172
Primum Mobile      103
Product of complex numbers      34
Product of four lengths      12
Product of ideals      175
Product of lengths      63
Product of numbers      10
Product of three lengths      11
Product of triangles      35
Product of two lengths      10
Product, inner      76
Projection      61
Projection, central      119
Projective configuration theorems      61
Projective explanation of coincidences      67 68
Projective explanation of coincidences and algebra      69
Projective geometry      61
Projective geometry and Klein      126
Projective geometry and linear algebra      127
Projective geometry, axioms      76
Projective model      121 127
Projective plane      61
Pseudodistance      121 125
Pseudosphere      118
Pseudosphere as hyperbolic cylinder      195
Pseudosphere, infinite lines on      119
Pseudosphere, mapped to disk      120
Pythagoras      2
Pythagorean comma      4
Pythagorean equation      5
Pythagorean Theorem      5
Pythagorean theorem and complex absolute value      38
Pythagorean theorem and parallel axiom      50 110
Pythagorean theorem and quaternion absolute value      139
Pythagorean theorem in Euclid      12
Pythagorean triples      6
Pythagoreans      2
Quadratic equation      29 88
Quadratic equation, discriminant of      30
Quadratic equation, imaginary solutions      30
Quadratic formula      30
Quadrivium      2
Quantum theory      213
Quartic equations      41
Quaternion      129
Quaternion as complex pair      141
Quaternion for space rotation      141 142
Quaternion, absolute value      131
Quaternion, absolute value, is multiplicative      139
Quaternion, multiplication      138
Quaternion, multiplication, is noncommutative      138
Quaternion, plaque      138
Quaternion, pure imaginary      143
Quaternion, representation of rotation      143
Quotient      159
Radicals      205
Raleigh, Walter      107
Rational angles      40 168
Rational numbers      see numbers rational
Rational slopes      168
Recorde, Robert      9
Reductio ad absurdam      8
Regular polytopes in      151
Regular tilings      152
Regular tilings of      153
Remainder      159
Riemann, Bernhard      126 191
Rigid motion      133 136 142
Robinson, Abraham      100
Rodrigues, Olinde      141 144
Roots of 1      39
Rotation and roots of 1      39
Rotation of space      141
Rotation of tetrahedron      147
Rotation of the plane      38
Rotation, induced by multiplication      38 142
Rotation, quaternion representation of      143
Rotation, trivial      147
Ruler and compass construction      207
Saccheri, Girolamo      115
Saccheri, Girolamo, and the nature of lines      115 119
Saddle      117
Schlaefli, Ludwig      152
Second (musical interval)      4
Set of algebraic numbers is countable      206
Set of gaps      202
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