The History of mathematics : a reader

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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 -- Descartes, Fermat and their contemporaries -- Isaac Newton -- Leibniz and his followers -- Euler and his contemporaries -- Gauss, and the origins of structural algebra -- Non-Euclidean geometry -- Projective geometry in the nineteenth century -- The rigorization of the calculus -- The mechanization of calculation

Author(s): John Fauvel; Jeremy Gray; Open University (eds.)
Publisher: Palgrave
Year: 1987

Language: English
Pages: 652
City: Basingstoke
Tags: Математика;История математики;