Mathematics for the nonmathematician /
Kline, Morris, 1908-1992,
Mathematics for the nonmathematician / Morris Kline. - xiii, 641 páginas : ilustraciones
Incluye bibliografía.
Why mathematics? -- A historical orientation -- Logic and mathematics -- Number: the fundamental concept -- Algebra, the higher arithmetic -- The nature and uses of Euclidean geometry -- Charting the earth and the heavens -- The mathematical order of nature -- The awakening of Europe -- Mathematics and painting in the Renaissance -- Projective geometry -- Coordinate geometry -- The simplest formulas in action -- Parametric equations and curvilinear motion -- The application of formulas to gravitation -- The differential calculus -- The integral calculus -- Trigonometric functions and oscillatory motion -- The trigonometric analysis of musical sounds -- Non-Euclidean geometries and their significance -- Arithmetics and their algebras -- The statistical approach to the social and biological sciences -- The theory of probability -- The nature and values of mathematics.
0486248232 9780486248233
Matemáticas.
510 / K65ma 1985
Mathematics for the nonmathematician / Morris Kline. - xiii, 641 páginas : ilustraciones
Incluye bibliografía.
Why mathematics? -- A historical orientation -- Logic and mathematics -- Number: the fundamental concept -- Algebra, the higher arithmetic -- The nature and uses of Euclidean geometry -- Charting the earth and the heavens -- The mathematical order of nature -- The awakening of Europe -- Mathematics and painting in the Renaissance -- Projective geometry -- Coordinate geometry -- The simplest formulas in action -- Parametric equations and curvilinear motion -- The application of formulas to gravitation -- The differential calculus -- The integral calculus -- Trigonometric functions and oscillatory motion -- The trigonometric analysis of musical sounds -- Non-Euclidean geometries and their significance -- Arithmetics and their algebras -- The statistical approach to the social and biological sciences -- The theory of probability -- The nature and values of mathematics.
0486248232 9780486248233
Matemáticas.
510 / K65ma 1985