| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
817 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Norton history of science |
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Norton history of science.
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| Note |
Originally published: The Fontana history of the mathematical sciences. London : Fontana Press, 1997. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages[763]-788) and index. |
| Contents |
Pre-viewing the rainbow -- Invisible origins and ancient traditions -- A quiet millennium: from the early Middle Ages into the European Renaissance -- The age of trigonometry: Europe, 1540-1660 -- The calculus and its consequences, 1660-1750 -- Analysis and mechanics at centre stage, 1750-1800 -- Institutions and the profession after the French Revolution -- Mathematical analysis and geometries, 1800-1860 -- The expanding world of algebras, 1800-1860 -- Mechanics and mathematical physics, 1800-1860 -- International mathematics, but the rise of Germany -- The rise of set theory: mathematical analysis, 1860-1900 -- Algebras and geometries: their relations and axioms, 1860-1900 -- An era of stability: mechanics, 1860-1900 -- An era of media: mathematical physics, 1860-1900 -- The new century, to the Great War and beyond -- Re-viewing the rainbow. |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- History.
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| Added Title |
Fontana history of the mathematical sciences
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Rainbow of mathematics |
| ISBN |
0393046508 |
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