This classic best-seller by a well-known author introduces mathematics history to math and math education majors. Suggested essay topics and problem studies challenge students. CULTURAL CONNECTIONS sections explain the time and culture in which mathematics developed and evolved. Portraits of mathematicians and material on women in mathematics are of special interest.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 3rd Edition. 3rd. ed. ; xv, 464 p. illus., ports. 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0030745500; 9780030745508 LCCN: 69-14523 ; LC: QA21; Dewey: 510/.09 ; OCLC: 12199 ; light bloue cloth ; no dustjacket ; "This classic best-seller by a well-known author introduces mathematics history to math and math education majors. Suggested essay topics and problem studies challenge students.sections explain the time and culture in which mathematics developed and evolved. Portraits of mathematicians and material on women in mathematics are of special interest." ; Contents: Before the seventeenth century -- Babylonian and Egyptian mathematics -- Pythagorean mathematics -- Duplication, trisection and quadrature -- Euclid's elements -- greek mathematics after Euclid -- Hindu and Arabian mathematics -- European mathematics 500 to 1600 -- Seventeenth century and later European mathematics -- The dawn of modern mathematics -- Analytic geometry and other pre-calculus developments -- The calculus and related concepts -- Transition to the twentieth century -- General bibliography -- A chronological table -- Mathematical periods. ; FINE. Book. Seller Inventory # 005701
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