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9780393046502

The Norton History of the Mathematical Sciences

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  • ISBN13:

    9780393046502

  • ISBN10:

    0393046508

  • Edition: 00
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1998-12-17
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

Beginning with the Babylonian and Egyptian mathematicians of antiquity, Ivor Grattan-Guinness presents a comprehensive and authoritative account of the development of the subject that lies at the heart of many sciences.

Table of Contents

Pre-viewing the rainbow
1(18)
Invisible origins and ancient traditions
18(86)
A quiet millennium: from the early Middle Ages into the European Renaissance
104(70)
The age of trigonometry: Europe, 1540-1660
174(60)
The calculus and its consequences, 1660-1750
234(68)
Analysis and mechanics at centre stage, 1750-1800
302(45)
Institutions and the profession after the French Revolution
347(17)
Mathematical analysis and geometries, 1800-1860
364(45)
The expanding world of algebras, 1800-1860
409(27)
Mechanics and mathematical physics, 1800-1860
436(43)
International mathematics, but the rise of Germany
479(14)
The rise of set theory: mathematical analysis, 1860-1900
493(38)
Algebras and geometries: their relations and axioms, 1860-1900
531(45)
An era of stability: mechanics, 1860-1900
576(44)
An era of media: mathematical physics, 1860-1900
620(34)
The new century, to the Great War and beyond
654(65)
Re-viewing the rainbow
719(44)
Bibliography 763(26)
Publisher's Acknowledgements 789(2)
Index 791

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