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Numbers

By Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus , Jürgen Neukirch , Reinhold Remmert , Alexander Prestel , Klaus Mainzer , Hans Hermes , Friedrich Hirzebruch , Max Koecher , John H. Ewing , H.L.S. Orde , K. Lamotke

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
1990
ISBN
9780387974972, 0387974970
LCC
QA241 .Z3413 1995
Open Library ID
OL530675M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
8 MB (8807157 bytes)
Series
Graduate texts in mathematics 123
Edition
Corrected
Pages
418\418
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
600
Time added
2010-07-29 05:14:56

Description

This is a book about numbers - all kinds of numbers, from integers to p-adics, from rationals to octonions, from reals to infinitesimals. Who first used the standard notation for ¦? Why was Hamilton obsessed with quaternions? What was the prospect for "quaternionic analysis" in the 19th century? This is the story about one of the major threads of mathematics over thousands of years. It is a story that will give the reader both a glimpse of the mystery surrounding imaginary numbers in the 17th century and also a view of some major developments in the 20th.

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