The History of Mathematics: A Brief Course

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The History of Mathematics ...

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The History of Mathematics A Brief Course Second Edition Roger Cooke University of Vermont @ WILEY-INTERSCIENCE A JOHN WILEY &am ...

Copyright @ 2005 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. AH rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jerse ...

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World Part 1. The World of Mathematics and the Mathematics of the Chapter 1. The Origin and Prehistory of Mathematics Numbers ...

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Preface This second edition of The History of Mathematics: A Brief Course must begin with a few words of explanation to all user ...

xvi PREFACE were available, time is an important consideration for authors as well as readers. To switch metaphors, there were s ...

PREFACE xvii any general history of mathematics will have many missing links. Unavoidably, history gets distorted in this proces ...

xviii PREFACE Acknowledgements. I am grateful to the editors at Wiley, Steve Quigley and especially Susanne Steitz, for keeping ...

Part 1 The World of Mathematics and the Mathematics of the World The History of Mathematics: A Brief Course, Second Edition by R ...