A history of mathematics : from Mesopotamia to modernity / Luke Hodgkin.
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TextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013Description: xiii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text ISBN: 9780199676767Subject(s): Mathematics -- History | Mathematics, Babylonian -- History | Mathematics, Greek -- History | Mathematics, Chinese -- History | Mathematics, Arab -- History | Mathematics -- Europe, Western -- History | Mathematics | Mathematics, Arab | Mathematics, Babylonian | Mathematics, Chinese | Mathematics, Greek | Europe, Western | MathematikGenre/Form: History.DDC classification: 510.9 LOC classification: QA21 | .H68 2013| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-269) and index.
Babylonian mathematics -- Greeks and 'origins' -- Chinese mathematics -- The calculus -- Geometries and space.
"A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity covers the evolution of mathematics through time and across the major Eastern and Western civilizations. It begins in Babylon, then describes the trials and tribulations of the Greek mathematicians. The important, and often neglected, influence of both Chinese and Islamic mathematics is covered in detail, placing the description of early Western mathematics in a global context. The book concludes with modern mathematics, covering recent developments such as the advent of the computer, chaos theory, topology, mathematical physics, and the solution of Fermat's Last Theorem."-- From publisher's description.
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