Book:Eric Temple Bell/The Development of Mathematics

Subject Matter

 * History of Mathematics

Contents



 * Chapter 1. General Prospectus
 * Chapter 2. The Age of Empiricism
 * Chapter 3. Firmly Established
 * Chapter 4. The European Depression
 * Chapter 5. Detour through India, Arabia, and Spain
 * Chapter 6. Four Centuries of Transition,
 * Chapter 7. The Beginning of Modern Mathematics,
 * Chapter 8. Extensions of Number
 * Chapter 9. Toward Mathematical Structure
 * Chapter 10. Arithmetic Generalized
 * Chapter 11. Emergence of Structural Analysis
 * Chapter 12. Cardinal and Ordinal to $1902$
 * Chapter 13. From Intuition to Absolute Rigor,
 * Chapter 14. Rational Arithmetic after Fermat
 * Chapter 15. Contributions from Geometry
 * Chapter 16. The Impulse from Science
 * Chapter 17. From Mechanics to Generalized Variables
 * Chapter 18. From Applications to Abstractions
 * Chapter 19. Differential and Difference Equations
 * Chapter 20. Invariance
 * Chapter 21. Certain Major Theories of Functions
 * Chapter 22. Through Physics to General Analysis and Abstractness
 * Chapter 23. Uncertainties and Probabilities