History of Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction
(Sprache: Englisch)
In this Very Short Introduction, Jacqueline Stedall explores the rich historical and cultural diversity of mathematical endeavour from the distant past to the present day, using illustrative case studies drawn from a range of times and places; including...
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In this Very Short Introduction, Jacqueline Stedall explores the rich historical and cultural diversity of mathematical endeavour from the distant past to the present day, using illustrative case studies drawn from a range of times and places; including early imperial China, the medieval Islamic world, and nineteenth-century Britain.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „History of Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction “
1 Mathematics: myth and history; 2 What is mathematics and who is a mathematician?; 3 How are mathematical ideas disseminated?; 4 Learning mathematics; 5 Mathematical livelihoods; 6 Getting inside mathematics; 7 The evolving historiography of mathematics; Further reading
Autoren-Porträt von Jacqueline Stedall
Jacqueline Stedall researches and teaches history of mathematics at the University of Oxford. She has written a number of books on Early Modern European mathematics and co-edited, with Eleanor Robson, The Oxford Handbook of the history of mathematics. She is a longstanding member of the British Society for the History of Mathematics and Editor of its Bulletin.
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- Autor: Jacqueline Stedall
- 2012, Maße: 11,3 x 17,3 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199599688
- ISBN-13: 9780199599684
Sprache:
Englisch
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