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Author Hodgkin, Luke Howard, 1938-

Title A history of mathematics : from Mesopotamia to modernity / Luke Hodgkin
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 281 pages) : illustrations
Series OUP E-Books
Contents Babylonian mathematics -- Greeks and 'origins' -- Greeks, practical and theoretical -- Chinese mathematics -- Islam, neglect and discovery -- Understanding the 'scientific revolution' -- The calculus -- Geometries and space -- Modernity and its anxieties -- A chaotic end?
Summary 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 th
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-269) and index
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Subject Mathematics -- History
Mathematics, Babylonian -- History
Mathematics, Greek -- History
Mathematics, Chinese -- History
Mathematics, Arab -- History
Mathematics -- Europe, Western -- History
MATHEMATICS -- History & Philosophy.
Mathematics
Mathematics, Arab
Mathematics, Babylonian
Mathematics, Chinese
Mathematics, Greek
Mathematics -- History.
Mathematics, Babylonian -- History.
Mathematics, Greek -- History.
Mathematics, Chinese -- History.
Mathematics, Arab -- History.
Mathematics -- Europe, Western -- History.
Western Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005002151
ISBN 9780191523830
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