Carl B. Boyer (1906–1976)
Autor/a de A History of Mathematics
Sobre l'autor
Obres de Carl B. Boyer
Handbook der Wijsbegeerte (in 3 delen) 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Boyer, Carl Benjamin
- Data de naixement
- 1906-11-03
- Data de defunció
- 1976-04-26
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Hellertown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- New York City, New York, USA
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 7
- Membres
- 1,379
- Popularitat
- #18,646
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 14
- ISBN
- 33
- Llengües
- 5
"Another paper of great influence in the trend to abstraction was Ernst Steinitz's work on the algebraic theory of fields, which appeared in the winter of 1909-1910 and had been motivated by Kurt Hensel's work on p-adic fields."
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"Heesch thought that the four-color conjecture could be solved by considering a set of around 8,900 configurations."
I won't say that the book was never interesting [did you know that our "Arabic numbers" are really Indian inspired? Ever since my visit to Egypt many years ago I wondered why their numbers were different from ours.] Anyway, I have enough Science Fiction background that I recognized most of the buzz-words: Riemann fields, topology, tensors, pseudosphere(?), Hermitian matrices....
If I were an advanced student of Mathematics I would definitely give this book a 5-star rating. But, given that I actually was able to plow through the entire book, and comprehended so little, tells even me that the author was not intrinsically boring. There's a phenomenal amount of information in this book; it's just a shame that I understood so little of it. However, I may have been inspired to see if I can find an "advanced math for dummies" book. Just what is "non Euclidean geometry"?… (més)