Math Through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Others - Softcover

Berlinghoff, William P.; Gouvea, Fernando Q.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 188192954X ISBN 13: 9781881929543

Publisher: Oxton House Pub, 2014

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About this title

Book Description:

Written in an informal and easy-going style, this book is accessible to students, teachers and anyone curious about the history of mathematical ideas. This second edition includes five new historical sketches to answer questions about the origins of mathematics and how it was shaped into the subject we know today.

About the Author:

William Berlinghoff was educated at the College of the Holy Cross, Boston College, and Wesleyan University, where he received his PhD in Mathematics. He began his teaching career at the College of St Rose in Albany, New York, was Professor of Mathematics at Southern Connecticut State University, and was Visiting Professor of Mathematics at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. He regularly taught a mathematics course for liberal arts students that drew heavily on the historical development of the subject. He is the author or a co-author of several college texts for liberal arts mathematics, including A Mathematics Sampler (5th edition, 2001). He was also a Senior Writer for MATH Connections, a Standards-based secondary school core curriculum.

Fernando Q. Gouvea was educated at the University of Sao Paulo and at Harvard University, where he received his PhD in Mathematics. He is Carter Professor of Mathematics at Colby College, where he teaches, among other things, a course on the history of mathematics. He was a participant in the Institute for the History of Mathematics and its Use in Teaching, organized by the Mathematical Association of America. Fernando was the editor of MAA Focus from 1999 to 2010, and he is now editor of MAA Reviews and of the Carus Mathematical Monographs series. In addition to this book, he has written p-adic Numbers: An Introduction (2nd edition, 1997), A Guide to Groups, Rings, and Fields (2012) and several other books, research papers, and expository articles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxton House Pub
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 188192954X
• ISBN 13: 9781881929543
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 262