VNR Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics
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The VNR Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics is an encyclopedia of mathematics.
See Mathematics glossary.
Contents
Table of contents
Table of contents, 1975 edition.
Elementary mathematics
- Fundamental operations on rational numbers
- Higher arithmetical operations
- Development of the number system
- Algebraic explanation
- Functions
- Percentages, interest, and annuities
- Euclidean geometry - also known as Plane geometry
- Solid geometry
- Descriptive geometry
- Trigonometry
- Plane trigonometry
- Spherical trigonometry
- Analytic geometry of the plane
Steps towards higher mathematics
- Set theory
- Elements of mathematical logic
- Groups and fields
- Linear algebra
- Sequences, series, limits
- Differential calculus
- Integral calculus
- Series of functions
- Ordinary differential equations
- Complex analysis
- Analytic geometry of space
- Projective geometry
- Differential geometry, concave bodies, integral geometry
- Probability theory and statistics
- Calculus of errors adjustment of data, approximation theory
- Numerical analysis
- Mathematical optimization
Brief reports on selected topics
- Number theory
- Algebraic geometry
- Further algebraic structures
- Topology
- Measure theory
- Graph theory
- Potential theory and partial differential equations
- Calculus of variation
- Integral equations
- Functional analysis
- Foundation of geometry
- Foundations of mathematics
Tables
Plates
Editors
- W. Gellert
- H. Kustner (sp.)
- M. Hellwich
- H. Kastner (sp.)
Scientific advisors
- K.A. Hirsch
- H. Reichardt
Publisher
Van Nostrand Reinhold Company.
