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The History of mathematics : a reader by John Fauvel; Jeremy Gray; Open University (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The History of mathematics : a reader about?
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
Who reads The History of mathematics : a reader?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- John Fauvel; Jeremy Gray; Open University (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan; Macmillan Education in Association with the Open University
- Published
- 1987
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780333427910
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Mathematics, History, Stem
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