Book:David Nelson/The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics/Second Edition

David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics

Published $\text {1998}$, Penguin.

Subject Matter

• Mathematics

Contents

Preface to the Second Edition

Dictionary of Mathematics

Appendix:

Table 1 Derivatives

Table 2 Integrals

Table 3 Reduction formulae

Table 4 Centres of mass

Table 5 Moments of inertia

Table 6 The Greek alphabet

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Further Editions

• 1989: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics
• 2003: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (3rd ed.)
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.)

Errata

Eugenio Beltrami

Beltrami, Eugenio (1835-99)

William Brouncker

Brouncker, William, Viscount (1620-85)

Edward Cocker

Cocker, Edward (1631-75)

Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky

Lobachevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich (1793-1856)

Pietro Mengoli

Mengoli, Pietro (1626-82)

Emmy Noether

Noether, Amalie (Emmy) (1883-1935)

William Oughtred

Oughtred, William (1575-1660)

Willebrord van Royen Snell

Snell, Willebrord van Royen (1580-1626)

Alfred Tarski

Tarski, Alfred (1902-85)

Wronskian

It is named after the Polish mathematician Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński (1776-1853).

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