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Genre/Form: | Electronic book Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Hodgkin, Luke Howard, 1938- History of mathematics. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 (DLC) 2005002151 (OCoLC)57557470 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Luke Howard Hodgkin |
ISBN: | 9780191523830 0191523836 9780198529378 0198529376 1280758937 9781280758935 1429422068 9781429422062 9786610758937 661075893X |
OCLC Number: | 77175306 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 281 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | 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? |
Series Title: | OUP E-Books. |
Responsibility: | Luke Hodgkin. |
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The book contains more than 100 illustrations, pictures and figures, and many exercises (with solutions). An extensive bibliography with cross-references will be very helpful for students and readers. The book will be interesting for undergraduate and postgraduate students of mathematics and other readers interested in the history and philosophy of mathematics. * EMS Newsletter * Interesting and insightful. * Herbert Kasube, MAA Online * Hodgkin makes a convincing case for the importance of Ismaic mathematics. * The Times Higher * Read more...


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