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Lectures on Classical Differential Geometry

Second Edition

By: Dirk J. Struik

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Lectures on Classical Differential Geometry

Second Edition

By: Dirk J. Struik

Elementary, yet authoritative and scholarly, this book offers an excellent brief introduction to the classical theory of differential geometry. It is aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students who will find it not only highly readable but replete with illustrations carefully selected to help stimulate the student's visual understanding of geometry. The text features an abundance of problems, most of which are simple enough for class use, and often convey an interesting geometrical fact. A selection of more difficult problems has been included to challenge the ambitious student. Written by a noted mathematician and historian of mathematics, this volume presents the fundamental conceptions of the theory of curves and surfaces and applies them to a number of examples. Dr. Struik has enhanced the treatment with copious historical, biographical, and bibliographical references that place the theory in context and encourage the student to consult original sources and discover additional important ideas there. For this second edition, Professor Struik made some corrections and added an appendix with a sketch of the application of Cartan's method of Pfaffians to curve and surface theory. The result was to further increase the merit of this stimulating, thought-provoking text — ideal for classroom use, but also perfectly suited for self-study. In this attractive, inexpensive paperback edition, it belongs in the library of any mathematician or student of mathematics interested in differential geometry.

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0486138186

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For Dirk Struik

Scientific, Historical and Political Essays in Honour of Dirk J. Struik

By: Robert S. Cohen,J.J. Stachel,Marx W. Wartofsky

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Scientific, Historical and Political Essays in Honour of Dirk J. Struik

By: Robert S. Cohen,J.J. Stachel,Marx W. Wartofsky

It is fitting that Professor Dirk Jan Struik be greeted with this melange of mathematical, scientific, historical, sociological and political essays. The authors are also appropriately varied: different countries, outlooks, religions, generations, and we suppose - of course we did not as- different politics too. Many more would have joined us, we know, but the good friends in this book make a fine and representative assembly of the intersection of two (mathematical!) classes: affectionately respect ful admirers of Dirk Struik, and the best thinkers of this troubled century. Struik has been among the most steadfast supporters of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science, that discussion group which we have been holding at Boston University since 1960, but his luminous collaboration has been welcome, in Boston and Cambridge, for nearly five decades among mathematicians, physicists, philosophical and political thinkers, and especially among the students. It has not mattered whether they have been his own students or not, whether at M.LT. or elsewhere, whether scholars or dropouts, nature-lovers or book worms, anarchists or Republicans, Catholics or Unitarians, Communists or communists, prim or liberated. No doubt he has his preferences! But the main thing for Struik has been to educate and respect the other person.

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9027703930

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Lectures on Analytic and Projective Geometry

By: Dirk J. Struik

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By: Dirk J. Struik

This undergraduate text develops the geometry of plane and space, leading up to conics and quadrics, within the context of metrical, affine, and projective transformations. 1953 edition.

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0486173526

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A Concise History of Mathematics

Fourth Revised Edition

By: Dirk J. Struik

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A Concise History of Mathematics

Fourth Revised Edition

By: Dirk J. Struik

This compact, well-written history — first published in 1948, and now in its fourth revised edition — describes the main trends in the development of all fields of mathematics from the first available records to the middle of the 20th century. Students, researchers, historians, specialists — in short, everyone with an interest in mathematics — will find it engrossing and stimulating. Beginning with the ancient Near East, the author traces the ideas and techniques developed in Egypt, Babylonia, China, and Arabia, looking into such manuscripts as the Egyptian Papyrus Rhind, the Ten Classics of China, and the Siddhantas of India. He considers Greek and Roman developments from their beginnings in Ionian rationalism to the fall of Constantinople; covers medieval European ideas and Renaissance trends; analyzes 17th- and 18th-century contributions; and offers an illuminating exposition of 19th century concepts. Every important figure in mathematical history is dealt with — Euclid, Archimedes, Diophantus, Omar Khayyam, Boethius, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, Leibniz, Fourier, Gauss, Riemann, Cantor, and many others. For this latest edition, Dr. Struik has both revised and updated the existing text, and also added a new chapter on the mathematics of the first half of the 20th century. Concise coverage is given to set theory, the influence of relativity and quantum theory, tensor calculus, the Lebesgue integral, the calculus of variations, and other important ideas and concepts. The book concludes with the beginnings of the computer era and the seminal work of von Neumann, Turing, Wiener, and others. "The author's ability as a first-class historian as well as an able mathematician has enabled him to produce a work which is unquestionably one of the best." — Nature Magazine.

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0486138887

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A Concise History of Mathematics

By: Dirk Jan Struik

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A Concise History of Mathematics

By: Dirk Jan Struik

This compact, well-written history covers major mathematical ideas and techniques from the ancient Near East to 20th-century computer theory, surveying the works of Archimedes, Pascal, Gauss, Hilbert, and many others. "The author's ability as a first-class historian as well as an able mathematician has enabled him to produce a work which is unquestionably one of the best." — Nature.

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0486602559

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The Land of Stevin and Huygens

A Sketch of Science and Technology in the Dutch Republic During the Golden Century

By: Dirk Jan Struik

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The Land of Stevin and Huygens

A Sketch of Science and Technology in the Dutch Republic During the Golden Century

By: Dirk Jan Struik

Translation of: Het land van Stevin en Huygens. With corrections and additional material.

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9027712379

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Quantum Theory of Many-particle Systems

By: Alexander L. Fetter,John Dirk Walecka

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Quantum Theory of Many-particle Systems

By: Alexander L. Fetter,John Dirk Walecka

This self-contained treatment of nonrelativistic many-particle systems discusses both formalism and applications in terms of ground-state (zero-temperature) formalism, finite-temperature formalism, canonical transformations, and applications to physical systems. 149 figures. 8 tables. 1971 edition.

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0486428273

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Africa and Mathematics

From Colonial Findings Back to the Ishango Rods

By: Dirk Huylebrouck

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Africa and Mathematics

From Colonial Findings Back to the Ishango Rods

By: Dirk Huylebrouck

This volume on ethnomathematics in Central Africa fills a gap in the current literature, focusing on a region rarely explored by other publications. It highlights the discovery of the Ishango rod, which was found to be the oldest mathematical tool in humanity's history, thereby shifting the origin of mathematics to the heart of Africa, and explores the different scientific hypotheses that emerged as a result. While it contains some high-level mathematics, the non-mathematical reader can easily skip these portions and enjoy the book’s survey of African history, culture, and art.

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3030040372

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L.E.J. Brouwer – Topologist, Intuitionist, Philosopher

How Mathematics Is Rooted in Life

By: Dirk van Dalen

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L.E.J. Brouwer – Topologist, Intuitionist, Philosopher

How Mathematics Is Rooted in Life

By: Dirk van Dalen

Dirk van Dalen’s biography studies the fascinating life of the famous Dutch mathematician and philosopher Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer. Brouwer belonged to a special class of genius; complex and often controversial and gifted with a deep intuition, he had an unparalleled access to the secrets and intricacies of mathematics. Most mathematicians remember L.E.J. Brouwer from his scientific breakthroughs in the young subject of topology and for the famous Brouwer fixed point theorem. Brouwer’s main interest, however, was in the foundation of mathematics which led him to introduce, and then consolidate, constructive methods under the name ‘intuitionism’. This made him one of the main protagonists in the ‘foundation crisis’ of mathematics. As a confirmed internationalist, he also got entangled in the interbellum struggle for the ending of the boycott of German and Austrian scientists. This time during the twentieth century was turbulent; nationalist resentment and friction between formalism and intuitionism led to the Mathematische Annalen conflict ('The war of the frogs and the mice'). It was here that Brouwer played a pivotal role. The present biography is an updated revision of the earlier two volume biography in one single book. It appeals to mathematicians and anybody interested in the history of mathematics in the first half of the twentieth century.

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1447146166

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Lectures on Analytic and Projective Geometry

By: Dirk J. Struik

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This undergraduate text develops the geometry of plane and space, leading up to conics and quadrics, within the context of metrical, affine, and projective transformations. 1953 edition.

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Lectures on Classical Differential Geometry

Lectures on Classical Differential Geometry

For Dirk Struik

For Dirk Struik

Lectures on Analytic and Projective Geometry

Lectures on Analytic and Projective Geometry

A Concise History of Mathematics

A Concise History of Mathematics

A Concise History of Mathematics

A Concise History of Mathematics

The Land of Stevin and Huygens

The Land of Stevin and Huygens

Quantum Theory of Many-particle Systems

Quantum Theory of Many-particle Systems

Africa and Mathematics

Africa and Mathematics

L.E.J. Brouwer – Topologist, Intuitionist, Philosopher

L.E.J. Brouwer – Topologist, Intuitionist, Philosopher

Lectures on Analytic and Projective Geometry

Lectures on Analytic and Projective Geometry

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