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Title
A history of mathematics : from Mesopotamia to modernity / Hodgkin.
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ISBN
0198529376 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 281 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
QA21 .H68 2005
Alternate Call Number
31.01
Dewey Decimal Classification
510/.9
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-269) and index.
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Table of 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?
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?