Encyclopedic Dictionary Of Mathematics: The Mathematical Society Of Japan

by Mathematical Society of Japan

When the first edition of the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematicsappeared in 1977, it was immediately hailed as a landmark contribution tomathematics: "The standard reference for anyone who wants to get acquainted with anypart of the mathematics of our time" (Jean Dieudonn?, American MathematicalMonthly). "A magnificent reference work that belongs in every college and universitylibrary" (Choice), "This unique and masterfully written encyclopedia is more thanjust a reference work: it is a carefully conceived course of study in graduate-levelmathematics" (Library Journal).The new edition of the encyclopedia has been revisedto bring it up to date and expanded to include more subjects in applied mathematics.There are 450 articles as compared to 436 in the first edition: 70 new articles havebeen added, whereas 56 have been incorporated into other articles and out-of-datematerial has been dropped. All the articles have been newly edited and revised totake account of recent work, and the extensive appendixes have been expanded to makethem even more useful. The cross-referencing and indexing and the consistentset-theoretical orientation that characterized the first edition remainunchanged, The encyclopedia includes articles in the following areas: Logic andFoundations; Sets, General Topology, and Categories; Algebra; Group Theory; NumberTheory; Euclidean and Projective Geometry; Differential Geometry; AlgebraicGeometry; Topology; Analysis; Complex Analysis; Functional Analysis; Differential, Integral, and Functional Equations; Special Functions; Numerical Analysis; ComputerScience and Combinatorics; Probability Theory; Statistics; Mathematical Programmingand Operations Research; Mechanics and Theoretical Physics; History ofMathematics.Kiyosi Ito is professor emeritus of mathematics at KyotoUniversity.

Genres: Mathematics

2148 pages, Hardcover

First published June 8, 1987

Reviews

[Lanny · Rating 5 out of 5]

I fished my two-volume hard-back set out of the garbage
when I worked at the Half-Price books warehouse in my mid-twenties. It had one little ding, or I guess one big ding
on one volume, I have that volume in paperback as well
with an even smaller ding. For advanced mathematical concepts
and just to be able to look at the fundamental equations I have never needed much more than this, though I'm no mathematician.
This has been a good set to have as an artist type person. It doesn't have a bunch of applied science mathematics, like say optics math or electronics math, but all of that math comes out of pure math principles which this set archives with historical contextualisation. I'm just happy I saved their lives. Two big beautiful MIT editions.