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Unknown Quantity pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
Prime Obsession taught us not to be afraid to put the math in a math book. "Unknown Quantity" heeds the lesson well. So grab your graphing calculators, slip out the slide rules, and buckle up! John Derbyshire is introducing us to algebra through the ages - and it promises to be just what his die-hard fans have been waiting for. "Here is the story of algebra." With this deceptively simple introduction, we begin our journey. Flanked by formulae, shadowed by roots and radicals, escorted by an expert who navigates unerringly on our behalf, we are guaranteed safe passage through even the most treacherous mathematical terrain.Our first encounter with algebraic arithmetic takes us back 38 centuries to the time of Abraham and Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, Ur and Haran, Sodom and Gomorrah. Moving deftly from Abel's proof to the higher levels of abstraction developed by Galois, we are eventually introduced to what algebraists have been focusing on during the last century. As we travel through the ages, it becomes apparent that the invention of algebra was more than the start of a specific discipline of mathematics - it was also the birth of a new way of thinking that clarified both basic numeric concepts as well as our perception of the world around us.Algebraists broke new ground when they discarded the simple search for solutions to equations and concentrated instead on abstract groups. This dramatic shift in thinking revolutionized mathematics. Written for those among us who are unencumbered by a fear of formulae, "Unknown Quantity" delivers on its promise to present a history of algebra. Astonishing in its bold presentation of the math and graced with narrative authority, our journey through the world of algebra is at once intellectually satisfying and pleasantly challenging.
John Derbyshire
知名科普作家,数学家,教育语言学家,专业系统分析师。除本书外,他还著有广受好评的Prime Obsession和Seeing Calvin Dream。他的作品经常刊登在美国《国家评论》和《新标准》等杂志上。
毕业几年了,才真正领会到"代数"到底是什么. 绝大部分人完全把代数理解为算数.计算加减乘除的.或者解方程的. 但是,如果上小学的时候你读到和了解到这本书的一丁点历史,可能就足以改变我们对从小学学到大学和研究生的数学的认识了. 豆瓣写个评论还要卡字数...........请尊重创作...
评分毕业几年了,才真正领会到"代数"到底是什么. 绝大部分人完全把代数理解为算数.计算加减乘除的.或者解方程的. 但是,如果上小学的时候你读到和了解到这本书的一丁点历史,可能就足以改变我们对从小学学到大学和研究生的数学的认识了. 豆瓣写个评论还要卡字数...........请尊重创作...
评分此书翻译的不错,不过有很多可以避免的瑕疵。比如E.T.贝尔的名著《Men of Mathematics》在某一处翻译成《数学男人》,另一处译成《数学精英》;再比如field 这个词,用在代数学里翻译成“域”,在物理学里是译成“场”,但本书中一律译成了“域”。还有一些数学名词的翻译不是...
评分毕业几年了,才真正领会到"代数"到底是什么. 绝大部分人完全把代数理解为算数.计算加减乘除的.或者解方程的. 但是,如果上小学的时候你读到和了解到这本书的一丁点历史,可能就足以改变我们对从小学学到大学和研究生的数学的认识了. 豆瓣写个评论还要卡字数...........请尊重创作...
评分Unknown Quantity pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024