The History of Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction - Brossura

Stedall, Jacqueline

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ISBN 10: 0199599688 ISBN 13: 9780199599684

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2012

Riassunto

Mathematics is a fundamental human activity that can be practised and understood in a multitude of ways; indeed, mathematical ideas themselves are far from being fixed, but are adapted and changed by their passage across periods and cultures. In this Very Short Introduction, Jacqueline Stedall explores the rich historical and cultural diversity of mathematical endeavour from the distant past to the present day.

Arranged thematically, to exemplify the varied contexts in which people have learned, used, and handed on mathematics, she also includes illustrative case studies drawn from a range of times and places, including early imperial China, the medieval Islamic world, and nineteenth-century Britain.

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Su questo libro

Recensione:

Stimulating and accessible. (Mathematical Gazette)

L'autore:

Jacqueline Stedall researched and taught history of mathematics at the University of Oxford. She wrote a number of books on Early Modern European mathematics and co-edited, with Eleanor Robson, The Oxford Handbook of the history of mathematics. She was a longstanding member of the British Society for the History of Mathematics and Editor of its Bulletin.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0199599688
• ISBN 13: 9780199599684
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 144