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发表于2024-11-10
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John Derbyshire
知名科普作家,数学家,教育语言学家,专业系统分析师。除本书外,他还著有广受好评的Prime Obsession和Seeing Calvin Dream。他的作品经常刊登在美国《国家评论》和《新标准》等杂志上。
Prime Obsession taught us not to be afraid to put the math in a math book. "Unknown Quantity" heeds the lesson well. So grab your graphing calculators, slip out the slide rules, and buckle up! John Derbyshire is introducing us to algebra through the ages - and it promises to be just what his die-hard fans have been waiting for. "Here is the story of algebra." With this deceptively simple introduction, we begin our journey. Flanked by formulae, shadowed by roots and radicals, escorted by an expert who navigates unerringly on our behalf, we are guaranteed safe passage through even the most treacherous mathematical terrain.Our first encounter with algebraic arithmetic takes us back 38 centuries to the time of Abraham and Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, Ur and Haran, Sodom and Gomorrah. Moving deftly from Abel's proof to the higher levels of abstraction developed by Galois, we are eventually introduced to what algebraists have been focusing on during the last century. As we travel through the ages, it becomes apparent that the invention of algebra was more than the start of a specific discipline of mathematics - it was also the birth of a new way of thinking that clarified both basic numeric concepts as well as our perception of the world around us.Algebraists broke new ground when they discarded the simple search for solutions to equations and concentrated instead on abstract groups. This dramatic shift in thinking revolutionized mathematics. Written for those among us who are unencumbered by a fear of formulae, "Unknown Quantity" delivers on its promise to present a history of algebra. Astonishing in its bold presentation of the math and graced with narrative authority, our journey through the world of algebra is at once intellectually satisfying and pleasantly challenging.
作为一本合格的科普书,介绍了代数历史上是如何发展的,解决了一些什么问题,有什么名人出场,总得来说还是不错的一本书,长度适中,300页翻两个晚上也就翻完了。有志于学的朋友自然会去找代数课本来看,介绍理论显然不是科普书的任务 。 1.作者是柯西粉,说柯西其实有好好回...
评分毕业几年了,才真正领会到"代数"到底是什么. 绝大部分人完全把代数理解为算数.计算加减乘除的.或者解方程的. 但是,如果上小学的时候你读到和了解到这本书的一丁点历史,可能就足以改变我们对从小学学到大学和研究生的数学的认识了. 豆瓣写个评论还要卡字数...........请尊重创作...
评分这本书图书馆借的。前面还可以,后面有一点看不懂了,得补数学知识。这本书可以把我们之前学的数学知识融会贯通
评分这本书图书馆借的。前面还可以,后面有一点看不懂了,得补数学知识。这本书可以把我们之前学的数学知识融会贯通
评分毕业几年了,才真正领会到"代数"到底是什么. 绝大部分人完全把代数理解为算数.计算加减乘除的.或者解方程的. 但是,如果上小学的时候你读到和了解到这本书的一丁点历史,可能就足以改变我们对从小学学到大学和研究生的数学的认识了. 豆瓣写个评论还要卡字数...........请尊重创作...
Unknown Quantity 在线电子书 pdf 下载 txt下载 epub 下载 mobi 下载 2024