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By Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)
This review is from: Great Moments in Mathematics Before 1650 (Dolciani Mathematical Expositions No 5) (Paperback)
In teaching my courses, I always try to point out to the students some of the origins of the mathematics that they are trying to learn. Sometimes, it helps them to realize that the mathematics did not always exist, but had to be invented so that humans could better describe the circumstances that civilization created. However, there is no way that I could describe the invention of mathematics as well as Eves does.The material is split into twenty segments, each of which has its origin in a lecture he conducted on the history of mathematics. Eves also gives the current best estimate for the date at which the invention took place. Events included in the book are the development of the abstractions needed for proof techniques, the Pythagorean theorem, the discovery of irrational numbers, the invention of the extremely efficient Hindu-Arabic numeral system, the development of logarithms and the precursors of calculus. Every time I read some of the expository material developed by Professor Eves, I grow more impressed with his ability. My first exposure to this book was two decades ago in a math history class and it remains the most readable textbook I have ever had. Now that I read it for enjoyment, I can appreciate it in other ways. Exercises are included at the end of each segment and solid hints for their solution are included in the back. While most of the time mathematical progress is measured in increments, there are times when it is measured in quantum leaps. Eves captures some of the earliest cases where a new technique was created that substantially altered forever how mathematics is done. And he does so in a manner where reading it is a pleasure rather than a chore.
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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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In the Homeric legends it is narrated that when Ulysses left the land of the Cyclops, after blinding the one-eyed giant Polyphemus, that unfortunate old giant would sit each morning by the entrance to his cave and from a heap of pebbles would pick up one pebble for each ewe that he let pass out of the cave. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Further Reading, Euclid's Elements, Omar Khayyam, Oxford University Press, Pierre de Fermat, Johann Kepler, Diophantus of Alexandria, History of Greek Mathematics, Bonaventura Cavalieri, Cambridge University Press, Leonard Euler, Mathematical Collection, The Mathematics of Great Amateurs, University of Alexandria, William Oughtred New!
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In the Homeric legends it is narrated that when Ulysses left the land of the Cyclops, after blinding the one-eyed giant Polyphemus, that unfortunate old giant would sit each morning by the entrance to his cave and from a heap of pebbles would pick up one pebble for each ewe that he let pass out of the cave. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Further Reading, Euclid's Elements, Omar Khayyam, Oxford University Press, Pierre de Fermat, Johann Kepler, Diophantus of Alexandria, History of Greek Mathematics, Bonaventura Cavalieri, Cambridge University Press, Leonard Euler, Mathematical Collection, The Mathematics of Great Amateurs, University of Alexandria, William Oughtred New!
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- The Mathematics of Great Amateurs by Julian Lowell Coolidge on page 155, page 159, and page 193
- An Introduction to the History of Mathematics (Saunders Series) by Howard Eves in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Pythagorean Proposition by Elisha S. Loomis on page 28, and page 42
- Mathematical Morsels by Ross Honsberger in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Lion Hunting and Other Mathematical Pursuits: A Collection of Mathematics, Verse, and Stories (Dolciani Mathematical Expositions) by Ralph P. Boas Jr in Front Matter
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- Great Moments in Mathematics After 1650 by Howard Eves on 7 pages
- In Eves' Circles (MAA Notes) by Joby Milo Anthony in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Excursions in Calculus: An Interplay of the Continuous and the Discrete (Dolciani Mathematical Expositions) by Robert M. Young in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Old and New Unsolved Problems in Plane Geometry and Number Theory (Dolciani Mathematical Expositions) by Victor Klee in Front Matter
- Euler: The Master of Us All (Dolciani Mathematical Expositions, No 22) by William Dunham in Front Matter
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