| Description |
817 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Norton history of science |
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Norton history of science.
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| Contents |
1. Pre-viewing the rainbow -- 2. Invisible origins and ancient traditions -- 3. A quiet millennium: from the early Middle Ages into the European Renaissance -- 4. The age of trigonometry: Europe, 1540-1660 -- 5. The calculus and its consequences, 1660-1750 -- 6. Analysis and mechanics at centre stage, 1750-1800 -- 7. Institutions and the profession after the French Revolution -- 8. Mathematical analysis and geometries, 1800-1860 -- 9. The expanding world of algebras, 1800-1860 -- 10. Mechanics and mathematical physics, 1800-1860 -- 11. International mathematics, but the rise of Germany -- 12. The rise of set theory: mathematical analysis, 1860-1900 -- 13. Algebras and geometries: their relations and axioms, 1860-1900 -- 14. An era of stability: mechanics, 1860-1900 -- 15. An era of media: mathematical physics, 1860-1900 -- 16. The new century, to the Great War and beyond -- 17. Re-viewing the rainbow |
| Summary |
Beginning with the Babylonian and Egyptian mathematicians of antiquity, The Norton History of the Mathematical Sciences charts the growth of mathematics, through its refinement by ancient Greeks and medieval Arabs, to its systematic development by Europeans from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century. The traditions of the Far East are also examined. The book describes the evolution of all the major aspects of the discipline: arithmetic and geometry; trigonometry and algebra; the interplay between mathematics, physics, and mathematical astronomy; and "new" branches such as probability, statistics, and mathematical economics |
| Notes |
Originally published: The Fontana history of the mathematical sciences. London : Fontana Press, 1997 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [763]-788) and index |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- History.
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| LC no. |
98007876 |
| ISBN |
0393046508 |
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