00000cam a22000004a 4500 UP-8027390931312409619 Buklod 20250815120113.0 o--- | || || ta 910802r19911990nyum rb a001 0|eng d 014014739x (pbk.) 9780140147391 (pbk.) (iLib)UPCEB-00008353392 JJG JJG ORR OCL BAKER YDXCP OCLCQ BTCTA YBM OCLCG AU@ QA 21 D78 1990 Dunham, William 1947- Journey through genius the great theorems of mathematics William Dunham. New York Penguin Books 1991, c1990. xiii, 300 p. ill. 20 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-293) 1. Hippocrates' quadrature of the Lune (ca. 440 B.C.) -- 2. Euclid's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem (ca. 300 B.C.) -- 3. Euclid and the infinitude of primes (ca. 300 B.C.) -- 4. Archimedes' determination of circular area (ca. 225 B.C.) -- 5. Heron's formula for triangular area (ca. A.D. 75) -- 6. Cardano and the solution of the cubic (1545) -- 7. A gem from Isaac Newton (late 1660s) -- 8. The Bernoullis and the Harmonic series (1689) -- 9. The extraordinary sums of Leonhard Euler (1734) -- 10. A sampler of Euler's number theory (1736) -- 11. The non-denumerability of the continuum (1874) -- 12. Cantor and the transfinite realm (1891) Mathematics History. Mathematicians Biography. UPCEB CEBU-LAHUG QA 21 D78 1990 Book