This comprehensive history traces the development of mathematical ideas and the careers of the men responsible for them. Volume 1 looks at the discipline's origins in Babylon and Egypt, the creation of geometry and trigonometry by the Greeks, and the role of mathematics in the medieval and early mod
Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times Volume 3
✍ Scribed by Morris Kline
- Book ID
- 127450188
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Year
- 1972
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 4 MB
- Category
- Library
- ISBN-13
- 9780195061376
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✦ Synopsis
Now available in a new three-volume paperback edition, Morris Kline's monumental work presents the major creations in mathematics from its beginnings in Babylonia and Egypt through the first few decades of the twentieth century. Organized around the central ideas of mathematical thought, as well as the men responsible for them, this comprehensive history provides a broad panorama of the development of mathematics, displaying the unity behind the disconnected branches of the discipline today. Beginning with the origins of mathematics in Babylonia and Egypt, Volume One includes chapters on classical Greek and Alexandrian mathematics, Hindu and Arabic contributions, algebra in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, coordinate geometry, and the creation of calculus.
✦ Subjects
История математики
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