Making up numbers : a history of invention in mathematics / Ekkehard Kopp

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TextPublisher: [Cambridge] : Open Book Publishers, [2020]Description: 1 online resource (267 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

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Contents:

Prologue : naming numbers

Chapter 1. Arithmetic in antiquity

Chapter 2. Writing and solving equations

Chapter 3. Construction and calculation

Chapter 4. Coordinates and complex numbers

Chapter 5. Struggles with the infinite

Chapter 6. From calculus to analysis

Chapter 7. Number systems

Chapter 8. Axioms for number systems

Chapter 9. Counting beyond the finite

Chapter 10. Solid foundations?

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.