| Description |
xviii, 762 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Origins. -- Egypt. -- Mesopotamia. -- Ionia and the Pythagoreans. -- The Heroic Age. -- The Age of Plato and Aristotle. -- Euclid of Alexandria. -- Archimedes of Syracuse. -- Apollonius of Perga. -- Greek Trigonometry and Mensuration. -- Revival and Decline of Greek Mathematics. -- China and India. -- The Arabic Hegemony. -- Europe in the Middle Ages. -- The Renaissance. -- Prelude to Modern Mathematics. -- The Time of Fermat and Descartes. -- A Transitional Period. -- Newton and Leibniz. -- The Bernoulli Era. -- The Age of Euler. -- Mathematicians of the French Revolution. -- The Time of Gauss and Cauchy. -- Geometry. -- Analysis. -- Algebra. -- Poincar? and Hilbert. -- Aspects of the Twentieth Century. -- References. -- General Bibliography. -- Appendix. -- Index |
| Summary |
Paints a vivid picture of humankind's relationship with numbers. Updated and expanded, it offers broadened coverage of 20th century advances in probability and computers, and an appendix containing an extensive chronological table of mathematical and general historical developments |
| Analysis |
Mathematics history |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 713-723 |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- History.
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Mathematics -- History.
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| Author |
Merzbach, Uta C., 1933-
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| LC no. |
89005325 |
| ISBN |
0471097632 |
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