University Press of America
Pages: 260
Trim: 7 x 8¾
978-0-7618-2410-7 • Hardback • December 2005 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-0-7618-2411-4 • Paperback • November 2005 • $68.99 • (£53.00)
Dattatray B. Wagh is a well-known educator and author from the Western region of India. He headed the Mathematics departments at Ruia College and Wilson College in Bombay; served as the Principal of the first college in Goa; and later served as the Director for Bombay UniversityOs postgraduate instruction and research center in Goa, which laid the foundations for the present Goa University. Professor Wagh has devoted his professional and personal life to education and has helped establish and manage numerous schools and colleges in rural and urban areas of India. He was a member of various academic committees of Bombay University including the Senate, the highest academic body of the University. He is the author of five other books including three popular texts on college mathematics and a book on Ramanujan.
1 Preface
Chapter 2 The Great Greek Legacy
Chapter 3 The Indian Arithmetic: Its Entry and Acceptance in Europe
Chapter 4 The Method of Integral Calculus
Chapter 5 Analytic Geometry of Rene Descartes
Chapter 6 The Method of Differential Calculus
Chapter 7 The First Non-Commutative Algebra
Chapter 8 Arithmetization of Analysis
Chapter 9 Beginnings of Algebra
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This little book is an interesting...view of the history of mathematics. Wagh (deceased) chronicles the development of mathematics by examining the motivations and content of various branches as they evolved. Summing Up: Optional. General readers; upper-division undergraduates.
— R. L. Pour, Emory and Henry College; Choice Reviews