Journey Through Genius. The Great Theorems of Mathematics

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Author(s): William Dunham
Publisher: Wiley
Year: 1990

Language: English

Cover
Copyright
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Hippocrates' Quadrature of the Lune
Euclid's Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
Euclid and the Infinitude of Primes
Archimedes' Determination of Circular Area
Heron's Formula for Triangular Area
Cardano and the Solution of the Cubic
A Gem from Isaac Newton
The Bemoullis and the Harmonic Series
The Extraordinary Sums of Leonhard Euler
Euler's Number
A Sampler of Euler's Number Theory
The Non-Denumerabillty of the Continuum
Cantor and the Transfinite Realm
Afterword
Chapter Notes
References
Index