The rainbow of mathematics a history of the mathematical sciences /
"Beginning with the Babylonian and Egyptian mathematicians of antiquity, The Rainbow of Mathematics charts the growth of mathematics, through its refinement by ancient Greeks and medieval Arabs, to its systematic development by Europeans from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century. The...
| Main Author: | Grattan-Guinness, I. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton,
2000.
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| Physical Description: |
817 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Edition: | 1st pbk ed. |
| Series: |
Norton history of science.
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Pre-viewing the rainbow
- Invisible origins and ancient traditions
- A quiet millennium : from the early Middle Ages into the European Renaissance
- The age of trigonometry : Europe, 1540-1660
- The calculus and its consequences, 1660-1750
- Analysis and mechanics at centre stage, 1750-1800
- Institutions and the profession after the French Revolution
- Mathematical analysis and geometries, 1800-1860
- The expanding world of algebras, 1800-1860
- Mechanics and mathematical physics, 1800-1860
- International mathematics, but the rise of Germany
- The rise of set theory : mathematical analysis, 1860-1900
- Algebras and geometries : their relations and axioms, 1860-1900
- An era of stability : mechanics, 1860-1900
- An era of media : mathematical physics, 1860-1900
- The new century, to the Great War and beyond
- Re-viewing the rainbow.