Book:David Nelson/The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics/Second Edition
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David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics
Published $\text {1998}$, Penguin.
Subject Matter
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
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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