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Eves expains moments of great change in mathematics,
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This book, a sequel to the one with the same title with "Before" replacing "After", is just as good as the "predecessor." Eves has no peer in exploring the development of mathematics by identifying and describing some of the "inflection points" of mathematical progress. That is a term made famous by businessman Andrew Grove and is used to refer to a time when dramatic change is occurring.Mathematicians, despite many conceptions to the contrary, work in a field where astonishing results sometimes occur. Eves, through his set of great moments selected from his series of lectures on the topic, ably describes some of those moments of astonishment. He also explains why the result was significant in a manner that almost everyone, including mathematically sophisticated high school students, can understand. Eves also includes problems at the end of each section, and these are excellent. They are well written and serve to solidify and expand the main points of the section. He also includes solution hints for most of the exercises. A partial list of the topics includes the birth of probability, the invention of the calculus, the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry, the creation of group theory, the organization of set theory, and my favorite, transfinite numbers. There is no better set of books available for courses in mathematical history than the two in this short series. Mathematics occasionally progresses in great bounds rather than small leaps and Eves gives detailed, understandable explanations of some of those of greatest length.
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At first I thought this book would be dry like every other math book, but when I actually sat down and read it, I realized it was far from boring. You can read each chapter individually; you don't have to read the bool left cover to right. If math was taught in high school with this book, kids may find it more interesting and, dare I say, relevant.
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New York, Further Reading, Source Book, Felix Klein, Euclid's Elements, Johann Bernoulli, Augustus De Morgan, Blaise Pascal, Arthur Cayley, David Hilbert, Dirichlet's Theorem, Joseph Louis Lagrange, Men of Mathematics, United States, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Cambridge University Press, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Georg Cantor, Jacob Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, Mathematical Philosophy, Open Court, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Bertrand Russell New!
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- A Source Book in Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics) by David Eugene Smith on 8 pages
- Great Moments in Mathematics Before 1650 (Dolciani Mathematical Expositions No 5) by Howard Eves on 7 pages
- Men of Mathematics (Touchstone Books) by E.T. Bell on 4 pages
- Introduction to Non-Euclidean Geometry on page 75, page 87, and page 236
- Mathematical Philosophy by Cassius J. Keyser on page 82, and page 87
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