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04632cam a2200397Ia 4500 001 8F910D740F4011DF93771FC5C41A358D 003 SILO 005 20100601010008 008 090401s2009 dcuac b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2008935288 020 $a 0883855690 (hbk.) 020 $a 9780883855690 035 $a (OCoLC)317588059 040 $a YDXCP $c YDXCP $d SILO $d OMM $d IBS $d UKM $d CDX $d MNY $d WLU $d LMR $d IOT $d SILO 050 4 $a QA21 $b .W358 2009 082 04 $a 510.9 $2 22 245 0 $a Who gave you the epsilon? : $b and other tales of mathematical history / $c edited by Marlow Anderson, Victor Katz, Robin Wilson. 246 34 $a Who gave you the epsilon? & other tales of mathematical history 260 $a [Washington, D.C.] : $b Mathematical Association of America, $c c2009. 300 $a x, 431 p. : $b ill., ports. ; $c 28 cm. 490 1 $a Spectrum series 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $g [Pt. 4.] Surveys -- $t Mathematics at the turn of the millennium / $r Philip A. Griffiths. $t Evolution of the function concept: a brief survey / $r Israel Kleiner -- $t S. Kovalevsky: a mathematical lesson / $r Karen D. Rappaport -- $t Highlights in the history of spectral theory / $r L.A. Steen -- $t Alan Turing and the central limit theorem / $r S.L. Zabell -- $t Why did George Green write his essay of 1828 on electricity and magnetism? / $r I. Grattan-Guinness -- $t Connectivity and smoke-rings: Green's second identity in its first fifty years / $r Thomas Archibald -- $t The history of Stokes' theorem / $r Victor J. Katz -- $t The mathematical collaboration of M.L. Cartwright and J.E. Littlewood / $r Shawnee L. McMurran and $r James J. Tattersall -- $t Dr. David Harold Blackwell, African American pioneer / $r Nkechi Agwu, $r Luella Smith and $r Aissatou Barry -- $g [Pt. 2.] Geometry, topology and foundations -- $t Gauss and the non-Euclidean geometry / $r George Bruce Halsted -- $t History of the parallel postulate / $r Florence P. Lewis -- $t The rise and fall of projective geometry / $r J.L. Coolidge -- $t Notes on the history of geometrical ideas / $r Dan Pedoe -- $t A note on the history of the Cantor set and Cantor function / $r Julian F. Fleron -- $t Evolution of the topological concept of "connected" / $r R.L. Wilder -- $t A brief, subjective history of homology and homotopy theory in this century / $r Peter Hilton -- $t The origins of modern axiomatics: Pasch to Peano / $r H.C. Kennedy -- $t C.S. Pierce's philosophy of infinite sets / $r Joseph W. Dauben -- $t On the development of logics between the two world wars / $r I. Grattan-Guinness -- $t Dedekind's theorem: [square root of 2] x [square root of 3] = [square root of 6] / $r David Fowler -- $g [Pt. 3.] Algebra and number theory -- $t Hamilton's discovery of quaternions / $r B.L. van der Waerden -- $t Hamilton, Rodrigues, and the quaternion scandal / $r Simon L. Altmann -- $t Building an international reputation: the case of J.J. Sylvester (1814-1897) / $r Karen Hunger Parshall and $r Eugene Seneta -- $t The foundation period in the history of group theory / $r Josephine E. Burns -- $t The evolution of group theory: a brief survey / $r Israel Kleiner -- $t The search for finite simple groups / $r Joseph A. Gallian -- $t Genius and biographers: the fictionalization of Evariste Galois / $r Tony Rothman -- $t Hermann Grassmann and the creation of linear algebra / $r Desmond Fearnley-Sander -- $t The roots of commutative algebra in algebraic number theory / $r Israel Kleiner -- $t Eisenstein's misunderstood geometric proof of the quadratic reciprocity theorem / $r Reinhard C. Laubenbacher and $r David J. Pengelley -- $t Waring's problem / $r Charles Small -- $t A history of the prime number theorem / $r L.J. Goldstein -- $t A hundred years of prime numbers / $r Paul T. Bateman and $r Harold G. Diamond -- $t The Indian mathematician Ramanujan / $r G.H. Hardy -- $t Emmy Noether / $r Clark H. Kimberling -- $t "A marvelous proof" / $r Fernando Q. GouveÌa -- $g [Pt. 4.] Surveys -- $t The International Congress of Mathematics / $r George Bruce Halsted -- $t A popular account of some new fields of thought in mathematics / $r G.A. Miller -- $t A half-century of mathematics / $r Hermann Weyl -- $t Mathematics at the turn of the millennium / $r Philip A. Griffiths. 650 0 $a Mathematics $x History. 700 1 $a Anderson, Marlow, $d 1950- 700 1 $a Katz, Victor J. 700 1 $a Wilson, Robin J. 830 0 $a MAA spectrum. 941 $a 5 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724065418.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171222043452.0 952 $l OUAX845 $d 20100601010907.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20100503132858.0 952 $l PTAX572 $d 20100201083435.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8F910D740F4011DF93771FC5C41A358D 994 $a 02 $b IOTInitiate Another SILO Locator Search