Book:Eric Temple Bell/The Development of Mathematics

E.T. Bell: The Development of Mathematics

Published $\text {1940}$, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.

Subject Matter

• History of Mathematics

Contents

To Any Prospective Reader

Chapter 1. General Prospectus

Chapter 2. The Age of Empiricism

Chapter 3. Firmly Established

Chapter 4. The European Depression

Chapter 5. Detour through India, Arabia, and Spain

Chapter 6. Four Centuries of Transition, $\text {1202}$ – $\text {1603}$

Chapter 7. The Beginning of Modern Mathematics, $\text {1637}$ – $\text {1687}$

Chapter 8. Extensions of Number

Chapter 9. Toward Mathematical Structure

Chapter 10. Arithmetic Generalized

Chapter 11. Emergence of Structural Analysis

Chapter 12. Cardinal and Ordinal to $1902$

Chapter 13. From Intuition to Absolute Rigor, $\text {1700}$ – $\text {1900}$

Chapter 14. Rational Arithmetic after Fermat

Chapter 15. Contributions from Geometry

Chapter 16. The Impulse from Science

Chapter 17. From Mechanics to Generalized Variables

Chapter 18. From Applications to Abstractions

Chapter 19. Differential and Difference Equations

Chapter 20. Invariance

Chapter 21. Certain Major Theories of Functions

Chapter 22. Through Physics to General Analysis and Abstractness

Chapter 23. Uncertainties and Probabilities

Notes

Index