Classics of Mathematics - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 002318342X ISBN 13: 9780023183423

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 1994

Synopsis

Appropriate for undergraduate and select graduate courses in the history of mathematics, and in the history of science.   This edited volume of readings contains more than 130 selections from eminent mathematicians from A `h-mose' to Hilbert and Noether. The chapter introductions comprise a concise history of mathematics based on critical textual analysis and the latest scholarship. Each reading is preceded by a substantial biography of its author.

About this title

From the Publisher:

This edited volume of readings contains more than 130 selections from eminent mathematicians from A `h-mose' to Hilbert and Noether. The chapter introductions comprise a concise history of mathematics based on critical textual analysis and the latest scholarship. Each reading is preceded by a substantial biography of its author.

From the Back Cover:

This anthology contain selections from writings of leading mathematicians from classical antiquity through the early twentieth century. While the selections are chiefly taken from authors of the Mediterranean and modern Europe, some attention is given to medieval Islam and India, to traditional China, and to the united States.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 002318342X
• ISBN 13: 9780023183423
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 816
• Editor: Calinger Ronald S.