The History of mathematics : a reader / edited by John Fauvel and Jeremy Gray.
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TextPublisher: Basingstoke : Macmillan Education in association with the Open University, 1987Description: xxiv, 628 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN: 0333427904 (cased) :; 0333427912 (pbk) :Subject(s): Mathematics -- History | Mathematics, to 1982DDC classification: 510.9 LOC classification: IN PROCESS (UTILITY LOAD)QA21| Item type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Centre for International Peace & Stability (CIPS) | Centre for International Peace & Stability (CIPS) | NFIC | General Stacks | 510.9 HIS 1987 (Browse shelf) | Available | CIPS0000635 |
Includes index.
Bibliography: pxxiv.
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.
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