Scientific Classification Manual Algebra

Author: Todd Yuan Jun
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: With the advancement of technology, it is becoming increasingly difficult for students and teachers to obtain direct and rapid solutions to fundamental scientific and algebraic problems. Therefore, they will welcome the "Algebra" volume of the "Science Classification Handbook" published by U.S. FactsOnFile Publishers. The "Science Classification Handbook" series covers the following disciplines: physics, biology, chemistry, earth science, oceanography, space and astronomy, weather and climate, calculus, and geometry. It is an invaluable bilingual dictionary series organized systematically by academic disciplines. The "Algebra" volume by U.S. FactsOnFile Publishers includes the following sections:
Terminology
The book contains over 350 entries, with many accompanied by simple diagrams to help explain their meanings. Topics include: area, compound numbers, finite sets, logarithms, operations, parabolas, the Pythagorean theorem, radius, right angles, and integers, among others.
People
It introduces more than 100 scientists and mathematicians from ancient times to the present, whose discoveries have advanced human understanding of algebra. These scientists include: Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright, Pierre de Fermat, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Hipparchus, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Claudius Ptolemy Johann von Neumann, and others.
Chronology
It spans over 4,000 years of algebraic development from ancient Greece to the present, including major discoveries and significant events in algebra: Pythagoras, the Greek philosopher, established a society with many male and female followers (known as the Pythagorean Brotherhood), dedicated to philosophical and mathematical research (around 549 BC); Apollonius of Perga, a Greek mathematician, estimated the value of π to be 3.1416 (around 200 BC); French scholar Fran?ois Viète published "Analytic Art" and established the fundamental principles of algebra (1591); Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler invented the notation f(x) for functions (1727); British mathematician Andrew John Wiles, at the age of 10, resolved to solve Fermat's Last Theorem (1963), among others.
The series published by U.S. FactsOnFile Publishers is equipped with a convenient index, making it easy for students and teachers to quickly verify information. This book places algebra within the broader context of science, highlighting the close connections between all disciplines and enabling comparison and integration of information across different fields.