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A History of Mathematics
- From Mesopotamia to Modernity by Luke Hodgkin
About this book
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| A History
of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity covers the
evolution of |
| mathematics
through time and across the major Eastern and
Western civilizations. It |
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begins in Babylon, then describes the trials and
tribulations of the Greek mathematicians. |
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important, and often neglected, influence of both Chinese and
Islamic mathematics |
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detail, placing the description of early Western mathematics in a
global |
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context. The book concludes with modern
mathematics, covering recent developments |
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such as the advent of the computer, chaos theory,
topology, mathematical physics, and |
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the and the solution of Fermat's Last Theorem. |
| Containing
more than 100 illustrations and figures, this textbook, aimed at
advanced |
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undergraduates and
postgraduates, addresses the methods and challenges
associated |
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with studying the history of mathematics. The reader is introduced
to the leading figures |
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in the history of mathematics (including Archimedes,
Ptolemy, Qin Jiushao, al-Kashi, al- |
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Khwarizmi, Galileo, Newton, Leibniz, Helmholtz,
Hilbert, Alan Turing, and Andrew |
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Wiles) and their fields. An extensive
bibliography with cross-references to key texts will |
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invaluable resource to students and exercises (with solutions)
will stretch the |
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more advanced reader. |
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Contents |
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List
of Figures |
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Picture
Credits |
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Babylonian Mathematics |
| 2.
Greeks and 'Origins' |
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3. Greeks, Practical and
Theoretical |
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4. Chinese Mathematics |
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Islam, Neglect and
Discovery |
| 6.
Understanding the
'Scientific Revolution' |
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The Calculus |
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Geometrics and Space |
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Modernity and its
Anxieties |
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A Chaotic End? |
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11. Conclusion |
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Bibliography |
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Index |
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