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A history of mathematics : from Mesopotamia to modernity / Luke Hodgkin.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: OUP E-BooksPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 281 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191523830
  • 0191523836
  • 9780198529378
  • 0198529376
  • 1280758937
  • 9781280758935
  • 1429422068
  • 9781429422062
  • 9786610758937
  • 661075893X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: History of mathematics.DDC classification:
  • 510/.9 22
LOC classification:
  • QA21 .H68 2005eb
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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?
Summary: A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity covers the evolution of mathematics through time and across the major Eastern and Western civilizations. It begins in Babylon, then describes the trials and tribulations of the Greek mathematicians. The important, and often neglected, influence of both Chinese and Islamic mathematics is covered in detail, placing the description of early Western mathematics in a global context. The book concludes with modern mathematics, . covering recent developments such as the advent of the computer, . chaos theory, topology, mathematical physics, and th.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-269) and index.

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?

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A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity covers the evolution of mathematics through time and across the major Eastern and Western civilizations. It begins in Babylon, then describes the trials and tribulations of the Greek mathematicians. The important, and often neglected, influence of both Chinese and Islamic mathematics is covered in detail, placing the description of early Western mathematics in a global context. The book concludes with modern mathematics, . covering recent developments such as the advent of the computer, . chaos theory, topology, mathematical physics, and th.

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