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The History of mathematics : a reader / edited by John Fauvel and Jeremy Gray.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Basingstoke : Macmillan Education in association with the Open Un iversity, 1987.Description: xxiv, 628 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0333427912 (pbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 510.9
Contents:
Origins -- Mathematics in classical Greece -- Euclid's elements -- A rchimedes and Apollonius -- Mathematical traditions in the Hellenistic Age -- Islamic mathematics -- Mathematics in mediaeval Europe -- Sixtee nth-century European mathematics -- Mathematical sciences in Tudor and Stuart England -- Mathematics and the scientific revolution -- Isaac Ne wton -- Leibniz and his followers -- Euler and his contempories -- Gaus s, and the origins of structural algebra -- Non-Euclidean geometry -- P rojective geometry in the nineteenth century -- The mechanization of ca lculation.
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Includes bibliographical references ( pxxiv.) and index.

Origins -- Mathematics in classical Greece -- Euclid's elements -- A rchimedes and Apollonius -- Mathematical traditions in the Hellenistic Age -- Islamic mathematics -- Mathematics in mediaeval Europe -- Sixtee nth-century European mathematics -- Mathematical sciences in Tudor and Stuart England -- Mathematics and the scientific revolution -- Isaac Ne wton -- Leibniz and his followers -- Euler and his contempories -- Gaus s, and the origins of structural algebra -- Non-Euclidean geometry -- P rojective geometry in the nineteenth century -- The mechanization of ca lculation.

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