A history of mathematics : from Mesopotamia to modernity /

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A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity covers the evolution of mathematics through time and across the major Eastern and Western civilizations. It begins in Babylon, then describes the trials and tribulations of the Greek mathematicians. The important, and often neglected, influence...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hodgkin, Luke Howard, 1938-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
Temas:
Mathematics > History.
Mathematics, Babylonian > History.
Mathematics, Greek > History.
Mathematics, Chinese > History.
Mathematics, Arab > History.
Mathematics > Europe, Western > History.
Mathématiques > Histoire.
Mathématiques babyloniennes > Histoire.
Mathématiques grecques > Histoire.
Mathématiques chinoises > Histoire.
Mathématiques arabes > Histoire.
Mathématiques > Europe de l'Ouest > Histoire.
MATHEMATICS > History & Philosophy.
Mathematics
Mathematics, Arab
Mathematics, Babylonian
Mathematics, Chinese
Mathematics, Greek
Western Europe
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Babylonian mathematics
  • Greeks and 'origins'
  • Greeks, practical and theoretical
  • Chinese mathematics
  • Islam, neglect and discovery
  • Understanding the 'scientific revolution'
  • The calculus
  • Geometries and space
  • Modernity and its anxieties
  • A chaotic end?

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