History Of The Unknown
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Unknown Quantity
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Author : John Derbyshire
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2006-05-02
Unknown Quantity written by John Derbyshire and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-02 with Science categories.
Prime Obsession taught us not to be afraid to put the math in a math book. Unknown Quantity heeds the lesson well. So grab your graphing calculators, slip out the slide rules, and buckle up! John Derbyshire is introducing us to algebra through the ages-and it promises to be just what his die-hard fans have been waiting for. "Here is the story of algebra." With this deceptively simple introduction, we begin our journey. Flanked by formulae, shadowed by roots and radicals, escorted by an expert who navigates unerringly on our behalf, we are guaranteed safe passage through even the most treacherous mathematical terrain. Our first encounter with algebraic arithmetic takes us back 38 centuries to the time of Abraham and Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, Ur and Haran, Sodom and Gomorrah. Moving deftly from Abel's proof to the higher levels of abstraction developed by Galois, we are eventually introduced to what algebraists have been focusing on during the last century. As we travel through the ages, it becomes apparent that the invention of algebra was more than the start of a specific discipline of mathematics-it was also the birth of a new way of thinking that clarified both basic numeric concepts as well as our perception of the world around us. Algebraists broke new ground when they discarded the simple search for solutions to equations and concentrated instead on abstract groups. This dramatic shift in thinking revolutionized mathematics. Written for those among us who are unencumbered by a fear of formulae, Unknown Quantity delivers on its promise to present a history of algebra. Astonishing in its bold presentation of the math and graced with narrative authority, our journey through the world of algebra is at once intellectually satisfying and pleasantly challenging.
One Hundred Thousand Years Of Man S Unknown History
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Author : Robert Charroux
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
One Hundred Thousand Years Of Man S Unknown History written by Robert Charroux and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Civilization categories.
Exploring The Unknown Space And Earth Science
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Exploring The Unknown Space And Earth Science written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Astronautics categories.
Exploring The Unknown Volume Vii Nasa Sp 2008 4407 2008
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Exploring The Unknown Volume Vii Nasa Sp 2008 4407 2008 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
Among Unknown Tribes
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Author : Bill Broyles
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-06-01
Among Unknown Tribes written by Bill Broyles and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-01 with Photography categories.
Internationally renowned as an exciting guide to unknown peoples and places, Norwegian Carl Lumholtz was a Victorian-era explorer, anthropologist, natural scientist, writer, and photographer who worked in Australia, Mexico, and Borneo. His photographs of the Tarahumara, Huichol, Cora, Tepehuan, Southern Pima, and Tohono O’odham tribes of Mexico and southwest Arizona were among the very first taken of these cultures and still provide the best photographic record of them at the turn of the twentieth century. Lumholtz published his photographs in several books, including Unknown Mexico and New Trails in Mexico, but, because photographic publishing was then in its infancy, most of the images were poorly printed, badly cropped, or reworked by “illustrators” using crude techniques. Among Unknown Tribes presents more than two hundred of Lumholtz’s best photographs—many never before published—from the archives of the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, Norway. The images are newly scanned, most from the original negatives, and printed uncropped, disclosing a wealth of previously hidden detail. Each photograph is fully identified and often amplified by Lumholtz’s own notes and captions. Accompanying the images are essays and photo notes that survey Lumholtz’s career and legacy, as well as what his photographs reveal about the “unknown tribes.” By giving Lumholtz’s photographs the high-quality reproduction they deserve, Among Unknown Tribes honors not only the Norwegian explorer but also the native peoples who continue to struggle for recognition and justice as they actively engage in the traditional customs that Lumholtz recorded.
Australian National Bibliography 1992
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Author : National Library of Australia
language : en
Publisher: National Library Australia
Release Date : 1988
Australian National Bibliography 1992 written by National Library of Australia and has been published by National Library Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Australia categories.
Taming The Unknown
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Author : Victor J. Katz
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-21
Taming The Unknown written by Victor J. Katz and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-21 with Mathematics categories.
What is algebra? For some, it is an abstract language of x's and y’s. For mathematics majors and professional mathematicians, it is a world of axiomatically defined constructs like groups, rings, and fields. Taming the Unknown considers how these two seemingly different types of algebra evolved and how they relate. Victor Katz and Karen Parshall explore the history of algebra, from its roots in the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, China, and India, through its development in the medieval Islamic world and medieval and early modern Europe, to its modern form in the early twentieth century. Defining algebra originally as a collection of techniques for determining unknowns, the authors trace the development of these techniques from geometric beginnings in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia and classical Greece. They show how similar problems were tackled in Alexandrian Greece, in China, and in India, then look at how medieval Islamic scholars shifted to an algorithmic stage, which was further developed by medieval and early modern European mathematicians. With the introduction of a flexible and operative symbolism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, algebra entered into a dynamic period characterized by the analytic geometry that could evaluate curves represented by equations in two variables, thereby solving problems in the physics of motion. This new symbolism freed mathematicians to study equations of degrees higher than two and three, ultimately leading to the present abstract era. Taming the Unknown follows algebra’s remarkable growth through different epochs around the globe.
The Unknown American Revolution
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Author : Gary B. Nash
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2006-05-30
The Unknown American Revolution written by Gary B. Nash and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-30 with History categories.
In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing readers to a coalition of patriots from all classes and races of American society. From millennialist preachers to enslaved Africans, disgruntled women to aggrieved Indians, the people so vividly portrayed in this book did not all agree or succeed, but during the exhilarating and messy years of this country's birth, they laid down ideas that have become part of our inheritance and ideals toward which we still strive today.
Public Health Monograph
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954
Public Health Monograph written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with Hygiene categories.
The Life Of An Unknown
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Author : Alain Corbin
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2001
The Life Of An Unknown written by Alain Corbin and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Corbin recreates the life and world of a man about whom nothing is known except for his entries in the civil registries and historical knowledge about the times in which he lived: Louis-Francois Pinagot, a forester and clog maker who lived during the heart of the nineteenth century--the age of Romanticism, of Hugo and Berlioz--from the Napoleonic Wars to the Third Republic.