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

Publication Info. Basingstoke : Macmillan Education in association with the Open University, 1987.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  510.9 H673HI    Check Shelf
Description xxiv, 628 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pxxiv) and index.
Contents Origins -- Mathematics in classical Greece -- Euclid's elements -- Archimedes and Apollonius -- Mathematical traditions in the Hellenistic Age -- Islamic mathematics -- Mathematics in mediaeval Europe -- Sixteenth-century European mathematics -- Mathematical sciences in Tudor and Stuart England -- Mathematics and the scientific revolution -- Descartes, Fermat and their contemporaries -- Isaac Newton -- Leibniz and his followers -- Euler and his contemporaries -- Gauss, and the origins of structural algebra -- Non-Euclidean geometry -- Projective geometry in the nineteenth century -- The rigorization of the calculus -- The mechanization of calculation.
Subject Mathematics -- History.
Wiskunde.
Mathematik.
Chronological Term Geschichte.
Indexed Term Mathematics, to 1982
Subject Mathématiques -- Histoire.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject Mathematics. (OCoLC)fst01012163
Added Author Fauvel, John.
Gray, Jeremy, 1947-
Open University.
Other Form: Online version: History of mathematics. Basingstoke : Macmillan Education in association with the Open University, 1987 (OCoLC)755041506
ISBN 0333427912 (paperback)
9780333427910 (paperback)
0333427904 (cased)
9780333427903 (cased)
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