The VNR Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics

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Walter Gellert
Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1977 - Mathematics - 760 pages
A comprehensive color-coded compilation of information on elementary and higher mathematics and aspects of contemporary mathematics includes scores of worked-out problems, definitions, and theorems.

Contents

Introduction
7
Elementary mathematics 1 2 3 4
17
6
18
11
19
Fundamental operations on rational numbers
22
Higher arithmetical operations
47
Development of the number system
69
Algebraic equations Functions
80
29
591
Calculus of errors adjustment of data approximation theory
607
Numerical analysis
630
30
649
Mathematical optimization
653
Brief reports on selected topics 31 Number theory
669
32
672
Algebraic geometry
675

Percentages interest and annuities
139
Plane geometry
146
Solid geometry Descriptive geometry
184
Trigonometry
220
Plane trigonometry
241
Spherical trigonometry
252
Analytic geometry of the plane
282
Steps towards higher mathematics Set theory
320
The elements of mathematical logic
332
Groups and fields
343
Sequences series limits 14 15
381
16
382
Linear algebra 18 19
383
Differential calculus 20 Integral calculus
406
21
408
Series of functions
479
22
487
Ordinary differential equations 23
500
Complex analysis
517
Analytic geometry of space
530
25
539
Projective geometry
547
Differential geometry convex bodies integral geometry
561
27
570
Probability theory and statistics
575
Further algebraic structures
678
Topology
680
Measure theory
687
Graph theory
688
37
691
Potential theory and partial differential equations 38
693
Calculus of variations
698
Integral equations
703
Functional analysis
705
Foundation of geometry Euclidean and nonEuclidean geometry
711
Foundations of mathematics 11 17
717
80
724
146
726
406
727
479
730
500
738
547
739
607
740
630
745
680
747
688
748
705
749
723
750
Tables The contents of Chapters 14 and 15 refer in part to mathematical knowledge provided in sub sequent chapters
756
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