A History of Mathematics From Mesopotamia to Modernity

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A History of Mathematics From Mesopotamia to Modernity Luke Hodgkin 1 ...

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Preface This book has its origin in notes which I compiled for a course on the history of mathematics at King’s College London, ...

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Introduction Picture Credits xiv Why this book? On texts, and on history Examples Historicism and ‘presentism’ Revolutions, par ...

Picture Credits The author thanks the following for permission to reproduce figures and illustrations in this text: The Schøyen ...

Introduction Why this book? [M. de Montmort] was working for some time on theHistory of Geometry. Every Science, every Art, shou ...

2AHistory ofMathematics compilations of cut-and-dried knowledge, arranged in the manner indicated by the textbooks. They hadno i ...

Introduction 3 for themselves just how ‘different’ the mathematics of others might appear.^1 Since then, broadly, the textbooks ...

4AHistory ofMathematics have driven me to write this book: The supposed ‘humanization’ of mathematical studies by including his ...

Introduction 5 Examples For a long time I had a strong desire in studying and research in sciences to distinguish some from othe ...