The Calculus Gallery

William Dunham 世界知名的数学史专家，现为美国穆伦堡学院教授。Dunham教授著述颇丰，较有影响的著作还有Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics和The Mathematical Universe，后者被美国出版商协会评为1994年的最佳数学书（中文版也将由人民邮电出版社出版）。Dunham还分别于1992年、1997年、2006年获得美国数学协会颁发的George Polya奖、Trevor Evans 奖和Lester R. Ford奖。

出版者:Princeton University Press

作者:[美] 威廉·邓纳姆

页数:256

出版时间:2008-07-01

价格:USD 19.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780691136264

图书标签:数学MathematicsMathHistory科学math非虚构英语统计

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More than three centuries after its creation, calculus remains a dazzling intellectual achievement and the gateway into higher mathematics. This book charts its growth and development by sampling from the work of some of its foremost practitioners, beginning with Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the late seventeenth century and continuing to Henri Lebesgue at the dawn of the twentieth - mathematicians whose achievements are comparable to those of Bach in music or Shakespeare in literature. William Dunham lucidly presents the definitions, theorems, and proofs. "Students of literature read Shakespeare; students of music listen to Bach," he writes. But, this tradition of studying the major works of the "masters" is, if not wholly absent, certainly uncommon in mathematics.This book seeks to redress that situation. Like a great museum, "The Calculus Gallery" is filled with masterpieces, among which are Bernoulli's early attack upon the harmonic series (1689), Euler's brilliant approximation of pi (1779), Cauchy's classic proof of the fundamental theorem of calculus (1823), Weierstrass's mind-boggling counterexample (1872), and Baire's original "category theorem" (1899). Collectively, these selections document the evolution of calculus from a powerful but logically chaotic subject into one whose foundations are thorough, rigorous, and unflinching - a story of genius triumphing over some of the toughest, most subtle problems imaginable. Anyone who has studied and enjoyed calculus will discover in these pages the sheer excitement each mathematician must have felt when pushing into the unknown. In touring "The Calculus Gallery", we can see how it all came to be.

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一道讓人回味的菜必定有著順滑的口感和濃鬱的味道。一本讓人回味的書也一定充滿了讓你驚喜的細節和朦朦朧朧不見真身的回眸。 比起歷史，教科書的味道簡直是連地溝油都捨不得多放的渣菜。歷史的味道並不是端上來揭開蓋那刻的香氣，而是從菜品設計、選材用料，到清洗加工、煎炸爆...  

这本书的神奇之处在于，它美得像是一个故事，所谓「无巧不成书」：微积分的两位开山之父牛顿和莱布尼兹在 17 世纪写下微积分基本定理——导数的定积分是原函数之差，后来却被人发现充满了各种「如果」「除非」，必须写成「一个性质足够好的导数，其积分才存在、才是原函数之差...  

这本书的神奇之处在于，它美得像是一个故事，所谓「无巧不成书」：微积分的两位开山之父牛顿和莱布尼兹在 17 世纪写下微积分基本定理——导数的定积分是原函数之差，后来却被人发现充满了各种「如果」「除非」，必须写成「一个性质足够好的导数，其积分才存在、才是原函数之差...  

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