Mathematical Masterpieces Further Chronicles by the Explorers /

• Main Authors: Knoebel, Arthur (Author), Lodder, Jerry (Author), Laubenbacher, Reinhard (Author), Pengelley, David (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Series: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Algorithms.; Differential geometry.; History.; Number theory.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Differential Geometry.; Number Theory.

Experience the discovery of mathematics by reading the original work of some of the greatest minds throughout history. Here are the stories of four mathematical adventures, including the Bernoulli numbers as the passage between discrete and continuous phenomena, the search for numerical solutions to...

Table of Contents:

• The Bridge Between Continuous and Discrete
• Solving Equations Numerically: Finding Our Roots
• Curvature and the Notion of Space
• Patterns in Prime Numbers: The Quadratic Reciprocity Law.