数学简史：第四修订版（修订版） A Concise History of Mathematics: Fourth Revised Edition

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 256 pages

Publisher:Dover Publications Inc.

Imprint:Dover Publications Inc.

ISBN:9780486602554

Published:1 Feb 2000

Weight:312g

Dimensions:215 x 138 x 14 (mm)

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书籍简介

这部内容紧凑、文笔流畅的历史涵盖了从古代近东到 20 世纪计算机理论的主要数学思想和技术，概述了阿基米德、帕斯卡、高斯、希尔伯特等许多人的著作。“作者作为出色的历史学家和出色的数学家，创作了一部无疑是好作品之一。”——《自然》。

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.

作者简介

Dirk J. Struik：生日庆典

Dirk. J. Struik 于 1894 年出生于鹿特丹，在麻省理工学院度过了他的大部分教学生涯；他于 1960 年退休。他的《古典微分几何讲座》于 1988 年由 Dover 重印，至今仍是一本备受推崇的经典著作，他的《数学简史》也是如此，这是 Dover早期的数学原创书籍之一，由 Dover 于 1948 年初次出版，1987 年出版了目前的第四版修订版。

Struik 教授于 2000 年 10 月 21 日去世，距他 106 岁生日仅 21 天。教授。布朗大学的 Thomas F. Banchoff 是 Struik 博士的长期好友和同事，过去 30 年来一直担任多佛的顾问，他讲述了这位朋友令人难忘的百岁生日庆祝活动：

“Dirk Struik 97 岁的时候，我问他百岁生日有什么打算。他说他的家人总是开派对，但我后来想到了一个好主意，举办一次公开庆祝演讲，让他坐在前排，听他过去的人称赞他的贡献。我脱口而出，‘百岁生日时做一次演讲怎么样？’他毫不犹豫地同意了，这就是一场盛大活动的开始。

Dirk J. Struik: A Birthday Celebration

Dirk. J. Struik was born in Rotterdam in 1894 and spent most of his teaching career at MIT; he retired in 1960. His Lectures on Classical Differential Geometry, reprinted by Dover in 1988, is still a highly regarded classic, as is his Concise History of Mathematics, one of the first Dover original books in mathematics and first published by Dover in 1948, which reached its current fourth revised edition in 1987.

Professor Struik died on October 21, 2000, twenty-one days after his 106th birthday. Professor. Thomas F. Banchoff of Brown University, longtime friend and colleague of Dr. Struik and an advisor to Dover for the past 30 years, here tells the story of his friend's memorable 100th birthday celebration:

"Dirk Struik was 97 at the time I asked him what he planned to do on his hundredth birthday. He said that his family always had a party, but I then thought of a bright idea, a public celebration lecture where he would sit in the front row and hear people from his past say laudatory things about his contributions. I blurted out, 'What about a lecture on your hundredth birthday?' Without hesitation, he agreed, and that was the start of a grand event.