Routes of Learning: Highways, Pathways, and Byways in the History of Mathematics

Ivor Grattan-Guinness

ISBN 10: 0801892473 / ISBN 13: 9780801892479

Published by Johns Hopkins University Press 2010-01-11, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Routes of Learning: Highways, Pathways, and Byways in the History of Mathematics
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press 2010-01-11
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801892473
• ISBN 13: 9780801892479
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This seminal collection gathers together many general writings of one of the world's leading historians of mathematics. Organized thematically, these essays ponder the intellectual underpinnings of the field, examine the major topics in the history of mathematics, and recount the bizarre history of pseudomath.

Ivor Grattan-Guinness explores how people understand mathematics―the routes of learning they take as they make important discoveries and study mathematical concepts and theories. The essays in the first part of the book discuss the history of mathematics as a field and its central philosophical issues. Those in the next part address the history of mathematics education and its importance to current modes of teaching. In the last section Grattan-Guinness investigates various understudied aspects of math, including numerology, Masonic symbols in classical music, and the links between mathematics and Christianity.

This collection includes several essays that are difficult to find anywhere else. All historians of mathematics and students of the field will want a copy of this remarkable resource on their bookshelves.

About the Author

Ivor Grattan-Guinness is a professor emeritus of the history of mathematics and logic at Middlesex University. He is author of Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800–1840: From the Calculus and Mechanics to Mathematical Analysis and Mathematical Physics and editor of the Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences, also published by Johns Hopkins.