Libros de Matemáticas, página 8 de 470

Esta colección, nacida hace 25 años y proyectada con destino a estudiosos, estudiantes y lectores exigentes, ha dado a conocer en textos impecables, basados en las primeras ediciones o en manuscritos autografos, las obras y autores mas significativos de la Literatura española. La limpieza y autenticidad del texto es una condicion imprescindible en Clasicos Castalia.

Operaciones fundamentales con la calculadora más antigua del mundo. Libro de bolsillo, elemental, pero ideal para un neófito.

Peter PesicThe intellectual and human story of a mathematical proof that transformed our ideas about mathematics. In 1824 a young Norwegian named Niels Henrik Abel proved conclusively that algebraic equations of the fifth order are not solvable in radicals. In this book Peter Pesic shows what an important event this was in the history of thought. He also presents it as a remarkable human story. Abel was twenty-one when he self-published his proof, and he died five years later, poor and depressed, just before the proof started to receive wide acclaim. Abel''s attempts to reach out to the mathematical elite of the day had been spurned, and he was unable to find a position that would allow him to work in peace and marry his fiancee. But Pesic''s story begins long before Abel and continues to the present day, for Abel''s proof changed how we think about mathematics and its relation to the "real" world. Starting with the Greeks, who invented the idea of mathematical proof, Pesic shows how mathematics found its sources in the real world (the shapes of things, the accounting needs of merchants) and then reached beyond those sources toward something more universal. The Pythagoreans'' attempts to deal with irrational numbers foreshadowed the slow emergence of abstract mathematics. Pesic focuses on the contested development of algebra--which even Newton resisted--and the gradual acceptance of the usefulness and perhaps even beauty of abstractions that seem to invoke realities with dimensions outside human experience. Pesic tells this story as a history of ideas, with mathematical details incorporated in boxes. The book also includes a new annotated translation of Abel''s original proof.

Este libro pretende mostrar cómo se forjó el genio de Abel. Cómo influyó su circunstancia en la formación de un carácter firme y tenaz. Cómo fue creciendo su pasión desmedida, más que por la matemática pura, por la pureza de la matemática. Primero presentamos su medio familiar, sobre todo al padre exigente, mientras que en Noruega crecía el sentimiento de independencia. Después desvelamos algo de su legado científico y mostramos por qué puede ser reconocido como uno de los grandes matemáticos del periodo romántico.

Barbara Oakley iba para lingüista pura y "aprendió a aprender". Hoy es doctora en Ingeniería. Con un lenguaje claro y directo, nos brinda la posibilidad de reentrenar nuestro cerebro, descubrir sus f

A completely reworked new edition of this superb textbook. This key work is geared to the needs of the graduate student. It covers, with proofs, the usual major branches of groups, rings, fields, and modules. Its inclusive approach means that all of the necessary areas are explored, while the level of detail is ideal for the intended readership. The text tries to promote the conceptual understanding of algebra as a whole, doing so with a masterful grasp of methodology. Despite the abstract subject matter, the author includes a careful selection of important examples, together with a detailed elaboration of the more sophisticated, abstract theories

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Los acertijos de Canterbury es el primero de los tres libros de problemas matemáticos que publicó Henry Dudeney. Como muestra su propio título, Dudeney se valió de los célebres cuentos que el poeta medieval ingles Geoffrey Chaucer escribio entre 1380 y 1400. Puso los acertijos en boca de sus personajes y utilizo el ambiente y los decorados descritos por Chaucer para ilustrarlos. A pesar de la profundidad de algunos de sus enigmas y problemas logicos, Dudeney siempre procuro que los conocimientos matematicos requeridos para su resolucion fueran elementales.