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Mathematics in historical context / Jeff Suzuki.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Suzuki, Jeff, author.
- Series:
- MAA spectrum.
- Spectrum series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematics--History.
- Mathematics.
- Mathematics--Social aspects--History.
- Mathematicians--History.
- Mathematicians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 409 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : Mathematical Association of America, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What would Newton see if he looked out his bedroom window? Mathematics in Historical Context describes the world around the important mathematicians of the past, and explores the complex interaction between mathematics, mathematicians, and society. It takes the reader on a grand tour of history from the ancient Egyptians to the twentieth century to show how mathematicians and mathematics were affected by the outside world, and at the same time how the outside world was affected by mathematics and mathematicians. Part biography, part mathematics, and part history, this book provides the interested layperson the background to understand mathematics and the history of mathematics, and is suitable for supplemental reading in any history of mathematics course.
- Contents:
- The ancient world
- The classical world
- China and India
- The Islamic world
- The Middle Ages
- Renaissance and Reformation
- Early modern Europe
- The eighteenth century
- The nineteenth century
- The United States
- The modern world.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-393) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61444-502-8
- OCLC:
- 817962534
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