History of Modern Mathematics - Softcover

Smith, David Eugene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8180940497 ISBN 13: 9788180940491

Publisher: MJP PUBLISHERS, 2008

Synopsis

Introduction Theory of Numbers Irrational and Transcendent Numbers Complex Numbers Quaternions and Ausdehnungslehre Theory of Equations Substitutions and Groups Determinants Quantics Calculus Differential Equations Infinite Series Theory of Functions Probabilities and Least Squares Analytic Geometry Modern Geometry Elementary Geometry Non-Euclidean Geometry Bibliography General Tendencies

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David Eugene Smith (1860 – 1944) was an American mathematician, educator, and editor. David Eugene Smith is considered one of the founders of the field of mathematics education. Smith was born in Cortland, New York, to Abram P. Smith, attorney and surrogate judge, and Mary Elizabeth Bronson, who taught her young son Latin and Greek. He attended Syracuse University, graduating in 1881 (Ph. D., 1887; LL.D., 1905). He studied to be a lawyer concentrating in arts and humanities, but accepted an instructorship in mathematics at the Cortland Normal School in 1884 where he attended as a young man. While at the Cortland Normal School Smith became a member of the Young Men's Debating Club (today the Delphic Fraternity.) He became a professor at the Michigan State Normal College in 1891 (later Eastern Michigan University), the principal at the State Normal School in Brockport, New York (1898), and a professor of mathematics at Teachers College, Columbia University (1901) where he remained until his retirement in 1926. Smith became president of the Mathematical Association of America in 1920 and served as the president of the History of Science Society in 1927. He also wrote a large number of publications of various types. He was editor of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society; contributed to other mathematical journals; published a series of textbooks; translated Felix Klein's Famous Problems of Geometry, Fink's History of Mathematics, and the Treviso Arithmetic. He edited Augustus De Morgan's A Budget of Paradoxes (1915) and wrote many books on Mathematics.

Edition details

• Publisher: MJP PUBLISHERS
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8180940497
• ISBN 13: 9788180940491
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124