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    <subTitle>a reader</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Fauvel, John.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Gray, Jeremy</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1947-</namePart>
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  <name type="corporate">
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    <publisher>Macmillan Education in association with the Open University</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1987</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxiv, 628 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>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 -- Isaac Newton -- Leibniz and his followers -- Euler and his contempories -- Gauss, and the origins of structural algebra -- Non-Euclidean geometry -- Projective geometry in the nineteenth century -- The mechanization of calculation.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by John Fauvel and Jeremy Gray.</note>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
  <note>Bibliography: pxxiv.</note>
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    <topic>Mathematics</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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