Waar komt de wiskunde vandaan? Wie bedacht al die rekensymbolen, en waarom? Wat is het verhaal achter π? … negatieve getallen? … het metrieke stelsel? … kwadratische vergelijkingen? … sinus en cosinus? … logaritmen? Deze vragen en vele andere worden beantwoord in 30 los te lezen schetsen, op een informele en prettige manier, toegankelijk voor leraren, studenten en anderen die nieuwsgierig zijn naar de geschiedenis van wiskundige ideeën. De schetsen worden voorafgegaan door een rui...

Now in its sixth edition, Vector Calculus helps students gain an intuitive and solid understanding of this important subject. The book's careful account is a contemporary balance between theory, application, and historical development, providing it's readers with an insight into how mathematics progresses and is in turn influenced by the natural world.

Groups are important because they measure symmetry. This text, designed for undergraduate mathematics students, provides a gentle introduction to the highlights of elementary group theory. Written in an informal style, the material is divided into short sections each of which deals with an important result or a new idea.

Throughout the book, the emphasis is placed on concrete examples, many of them geometrical in nature, so that finite rotation groups and the seventeen wallpaper groups are tr...