Reviews for Technological Concepts and Mathematical Models in the Evolution of Modern Engineering Systems

The average rating for Technological Concepts and Mathematical Models in the Evolution of Modern Engineering Systems based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-10-07 00:00:00 Rhonda Gilbert After Cauchy, Fourier, Galois, French-Math dominance in 17th & 18th centuries had been overtaken in 19th century by their defeated enemy: Germany, which produced the "Prince of Math" (Gauss), his bright students and the great Gottingen successors (Riemann, Dedekind, Cantor, Kronecker, Wierestrass, Hilbert, Felix Klein, Lindermann, etc). Before World War I, a group of Ecole Normale Superieure students headed by Andre Weil, realised that French Math Textbooks were outdated and thus decided to form a math-study group nicknamed "Bourbaki". This group met regularly in the cafe near Jardin de Luxembourg in Paris, with the intention of rewriting the entire Mathematics based on the new SET Theory by Cantor, and followed the example of Euclid's 13-volume "Elements of Geometry". Their huge volumes were called "Elements of Mathematics" (Les Elements de Mathematiques). The Bourbaki books are what the beatles were to rock - fundamental in terms of conciseness and precision.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-03-02 00:00:00 Christer Hedberg This contains Bourbaki's treatment of set theory in one volume. Of particular interest is the historical note on pp. 296-346.