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Mathematics: a cultural approach.
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Mathematics: a cultural approach.

Author: Morris Kline
Publisher: Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. [1962]
Series: Addison-Wesley series in mathematics.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Morris Kline
OCLC Number: 526703
Description: 701 p. illus. 24 cm.
Contents: Why mathematics? --
The course of mathematics: an historical orientation --
The ways of mathematics --
Number: the fundamental concept --
Algebra, the higher arithmetic --
The nature and uses of Euclidean geometry --
Charting the earth and the heavens --
The mathematical order of nature --
The awakening of Europe --
Mathematics and painting in the Renaissance --
Projective geometry --
The revolution in astronomy --
Coordinate geometry --
The mathematization of science --
The simplest formulas in action --
Parametric equations and curvilinear motion --
The application of formulas to gravitation --
The differential calculus --
The integral calculus --
The Age of Reason --
Religion in the Age of Reason --
Reason in literature and aesthetics --
Trigonometric functions and oscillatory motion --
The trigonometric analysis of musical sounds --
Trigonometric functions and electromagnetism --
Non-Euclidean geometries and their significance --
Arithmetics and their algebras --
The deductive approach to the social sciences --
The statistical approach to the social and biological sciences --
The theory of probability --
The nature and values of mathematics.
Series Title: Addison-Wesley series in mathematics.

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