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Author Mankiewicz, Richard.

Title The story of mathematics / Richard Mankiewicz.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2000.

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 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  510.9 MAN    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  510.9 MANKIEWICZ    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  510.9 MAN    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  510.9 MAN    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  510.9 M278S    Check Shelf
Description 192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents 1. Year zero -- 2. Watchers of the skies -- 3. The Pythagorean theorem -- 4. The elements -- 5. Ten computational canons -- 6. Mathematical sutras -- 7. The house of wisdom -- 8. The liberal arts -- 9. The Renaissance perspective -- 10. Mathematics for the common wealth -- 11. The marriage of algebra and geometry -- 12. The clockwork universe -- 13. Mathematics in motion -- 14. Oceans and stars -- 15. The quintic -- 16. New geometries -- 17. Dialects of algebra -- 18. Fields of action -- 19. Catching infinity -- 20. Of dice and genes -- 21. War games -- 22. Mathematics and modern art -- 23. Machine codes -- 24. Chaos and complexity.
Subject Mathematicians.
Mathematics -- History.
ISBN 069108808X
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