The History of mathematics : a reader / edited by John Fauvel and Jeremy Gray.
Contributor(s): Fauvel, John | Gray, Jeremy | Open University.
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BookPublisher: Basingstoke : Macmillan Education in association with the Open University, 1987Description: xxiv, 628 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.ISBN: 0333427912 (pbk) :; 9780333427910.Subject(s): Mathematics -- History | Mathematics, to 1982DDC classification: 510/.9
Partial contents:
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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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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