The Calculus Gallery by William Dunham
More than three centuries after its creation, calculus remains a dazzling intellectual achievement and the gateway to higher mathematics. This book charts its growth and development by sampling from the work of some of its foremost practitioners, beginning with Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the late seventeenth century and continuing to Henri Lebesgue at the dawn of the twentieth. Now with a new preface by the author, this book documents the evolution of calculus from a powerful but logically chaotic subject into one whose foundations are thorough, rigorous, and unflinching—a story of genius triumphing over some of the toughest, subtlest problems imaginable. In touring The Calculus Gallery, we can see how it all came to be.-
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e: The Story of a Number
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How to Solve It
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T. rex and the Crater of Doom
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Flatland
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The Nature of Space and Time
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Eye and Brain
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The Two-Mile Time Machine
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Success through Failure
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Symmetry
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Life on a Young Planet
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Primates and Philosophers
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An Imaginary Tale
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Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future
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Why Stock Markets Crash
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The Serengeti Rules
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Designing the Molecular World
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The Meaning of Relativity
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The Long Thaw
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The New Science of Strong Materials
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The Eternal Darkness
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The Supernova Story
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The Mathematical Mechanic
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How to Clone a Mammoth
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Adaptation and Natural Selection
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Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula
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Colour
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Chance and Chaos
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Polyominoes
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Infinity and the Mind
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How the Leopard Changed Its Spots
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The Causes of Evolution
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The Tower and the Bridge
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Ancient Wine
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The Enjoyment of Math
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Neuronal Man
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Extinction
"This is a book that should be part of the personal library of any mathematician"---Mark Hunacek, Mathematical Gazette
William Dunham is a Research Associate in Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College. He is the author of Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics, The Mathematical Universe, and Euler: The Master of Us All, and is a co-editor (along with Jerry Alexanderson and Don Albers) of The G.H. Hardy Reader. He received the Mathematical Association of America's George Polya, Trevor Evans, and Lester R. Ford awards, as well as its Beckenbach Prize for expository writing.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691182858 |
| ISBN 10 | 069118285X |
| Title | The Calculus Gallery |
| Author | William Dunham |
| Series | Princeton Science Library |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2018-11-13 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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