scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1038062

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to history and biography (01-01) General histories, source books (01A05) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70)

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The first book of a material designed for five volumes lies before us. Contributions about the development of algebra, arithmetic and number theory, geometry, analysis are planned. The history of mathematics is embedded in the history of civilization of different periods and different zones of the earth. The project applies to teachers, pupils and students as well as everybody interested in the history of mathematics. The books shall also be of use in private study, in correspondence degree studies and in continued professional training. In the beginning it is formulated which demands are to be made on a modern history of mathematics. Then a concentrated survey about the history of mathematics from its beginning to present time (to the development of computers) is given (among this are also seldom dealt topics like mathematics in pre-Columbian America). That is complemented by a bibliography. Numerous maps and tables should represent useful working means, especially for teachers, although some of the tables have to be judged critically. Valuable biographies (often also illustrations) in a -- for this purpose -- well chosen size of 1-2 pages each follow. Dealt with are: Pythagoras of Samos, Euklid, Archimedes, Appolonius of Perge, Diophant of Alexandria, Liu Hui, Aryabhata, Brahmagupta, Al-Chorezmi, Bhaskara, Li Yeh, Leonardo of Pisa, Oresme, Cusanus, Stifel, Ries, Tartaglia, Cardano, Viète, Kepler, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, Leibniz, Bernoulli, Euler, Lagrange, Monge, Laplace, Gauß, Bolzano, Cauchy, Möbius, Lobatschewski, Abel, Jacobi, Dirichlet, Galois, Weierstraß, Tschebyschew, Kronecker, Riemann, Dedekind, Cantor, Klein, Kowalewskaja, Poincaré, Hilbert, van der Waerden.

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