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The Heritage of Thales

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 Egyptian Mathematics
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    Chapter 3 Scales of Notation
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    Chapter 4 Prime Numbers
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    Chapter 5 Sumerian-Babylonian Mathematics
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    Chapter 6 More about Mesopotamian Mathematics
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    Chapter 7 The Dawn of Greek Mathematics
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    Chapter 8 Pythagoras and His School
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    Chapter 9 Perfect Numbers
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    Chapter 10 Regular Polyhedra
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    Chapter 11 The Crisis of Incommensurables
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    Chapter 12 From Heraclitus to Democritus
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    Chapter 13 Mathematics in Athens
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    Chapter 14 Plato and Aristotle on Mathematics
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    Chapter 15 Constructions with Ruler and Compass
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    Chapter 16 The Impossibility of Solving the Classical Problems
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    Chapter 17 Euclid
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    Chapter 18 Non-Euclidean Geometry and Hilbert’s Axioms
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    Chapter 19 Alexandria from 300 BC to 200 BC
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    Chapter 20 Archimedes
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    Chapter 21 Alexandria from 200 BC to 500 AD
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    Chapter 22 Mathematics in China and India
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    Chapter 23 Mathematics in Islamic Countries
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    Chapter 24 New Beginnings in Europe
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    Chapter 25 Mathematics in the Renaissance
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    Chapter 26 The Cubic and Quartic Equations
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    Chapter 27 Renaissance Mathematics Continued
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    Chapter 28 The Seventeenth Century in France
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    Chapter 29 The Seventeenth Century Continued
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    Chapter 30 Leibniz
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    Chapter 31 The Eighteenth Century
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    Chapter 32 The Law of Quadratic Reciprocity
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    Chapter 33 The Number System
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    Chapter 34 Natural Numbers (Peano’s Approach)
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    Chapter 35 The Integers
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    Chapter 36 The Rationals
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    Chapter 37 The Real Numbers
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    Chapter 38 Complex Numbers
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    Chapter 39 The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
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    Chapter 40 Quaternions
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    Chapter 41 Quaternions Applied to Number Theory
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    Chapter 42 Quaternions Applied to Physics
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    Chapter 43 Quaternions in Quantum Mechanics
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    Chapter 44 Cardinal Numbers
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    Chapter 45 Cardinal Arithmetic
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    Chapter 46 Continued Fractions
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    Chapter 47 The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic
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    Chapter 48 Linear Diophantine Equations
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    Chapter 49 Quadratic Surds
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    Chapter 50 Pythagorean Triangles and Fermat’s Last Theorem
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    Chapter 51 What Is a Calculation?
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    Chapter 52 Recursive and Recursively Enumerable Sets
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    Chapter 53 Hilbert’s Tenth Problem
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    Chapter 54 Lambda Calculus
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    Chapter 55 Logic from Aristotle to Russell
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    Chapter 56 Intuitionistic Propositional Calculus
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    Chapter 57 How to Interpret Intuitionistic Logic
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    Chapter 58 Intuitionistic Predicate Calculus
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    Chapter 59 Intuitionistic Type Theory
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    Chapter 60 Gödel’s Theorems
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    Chapter 61 Proof of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem
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    Chapter 62 More about Gödel’s Theorems
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    Chapter 63 Concrete Categories
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    Chapter 64 Graphs and Categories
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    Chapter 65 Functors
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    Chapter 66 Natural Transformations
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    Chapter 67 A Natural Transformation between Vector Spaces
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Title
The Heritage of Thales
Published by
Springer Science & Business Media, December 2012
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4612-0803-7
ISBNs
978-1-4612-0803-7, 978-1-4612-6906-9
Authors

W. S. Anglin, J. Lambek, Anglin, W. S., Lambek, J.

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Country Count As %
Canada 1 13%
Unknown 7 88%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 38%
Researcher 2 25%
Professor 1 13%
Unknown 2 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Mathematics 2 25%
Philosophy 1 13%
Psychology 1 13%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 13%
Unknown 3 38%