Description |
xi, 372 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
Contents |
Number systems and the invention of positional notation -- Egyptian arithmetic -- Babylonian algebra -- Greek trigonometry: the introduction of inequalities and the measurement of area -- Navigation -- Cartography -- The invention of logarithms -- The algebrization of geometry -- Infinitesimal calculus -- The calculus and calculation -- Differential geometry -- Models of the universe -- Table 1: Common (Briggsian) logarithms -- Table 2: Natural logarithms -- Table 3: Exponential functions -- Table 4: Trigonometrical functions |
Analysis |
Mathematics History |
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Mathematics, to 1972 |
Notes |
Bibliographyp.349-352. _ Includes index |
Bibliography |
Bibl.pages 349-352. - Index |
Subject |
Mathematics -- History.
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Author |
Wells, R. O., Jr. (Raymond O'Neil), 1940-
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LC no. |
72083805 |
ISBN |
0030850355 |
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