Course Contents
Selected chapters from mathematics in their cultural-historical context. In particular we address:
-Outline of the history of mathematics;
-Impulses for mathematics from society, philosophy, astronomy, and geography;
-Numbers from antiquity to modern times;
-Irrational numbers, Fibonacci numbers, continued fractions;
-Infinity from Zenon to Cantor;
-Infinitely small quantities, measure theory, and non-standard analysis.
Literature
Victor Katz: A History of Mathematics. Harper Collins, 1993.
C. Boyer: A History of Mathematics. John Wiley, 1968ff.
C. C. Gillispie: Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Charles Scribners Sons, 1970 - 1991.
P. J. Davies, R. Hersh: Erfahrung Mathematik. Birkhäuser, 1994.
M. Kline: Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times. Oxford University Press, 1972.
H. Wußing: 6000 Jahre Mathematik. Springer, 2008.
Preconditions
recommended: Analysis and Linear Algebra
Selected chapters from mathematics in their cultural-historical context. In particular we address:
-Outline of the history of mathematics;
-Impulses for mathematics from society, philosophy, astronomy, and geography;
-Numbers from antiquity to modern times;
-Irrational numbers, Fibonacci numbers, continued fractions;
-Infinity from Zenon to Cantor;
-Infinitely small quantities, measure theory, and non-standard analysis.
Literature
Victor Katz: A History of Mathematics. Harper Collins, 1993.
C. Boyer: A History of Mathematics. John Wiley, 1968ff.
C. C. Gillispie: Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Charles Scribners Sons, 1970 - 1991.
P. J. Davies, R. Hersh: Erfahrung Mathematik. Birkhäuser, 1994.
M. Kline: Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times. Oxford University Press, 1972.
H. Wußing: 6000 Jahre Mathematik. Springer, 2008.
Preconditions
recommended: Analysis and Linear Algebra
- Lehrende: Anonym
- Lehrende: Markus Anders
- Lehrende: Burkhard Kümmerer
Semester: ST 2023