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This comprehensive history traces the development of mathematical ideas and the careers of the mathematicians responsible for them. Volume 1 looks at the discipline's origins in Babylon and Egypt, the creation of geometry and trigonometry by the Greeks, and the role of mathematics in the... read more
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- Hilbert: Add a description of this character.
- Poincare
- Riemann
- Dedekind
- Klein
- Betti
- Brouwer
- Gauss
- Descartes
- Ricci
- Abel
- Russell
- Cayley
- Frechet
- Weierstrass
- Wiss
- Beltrami
- Encyk
- Christoffel
- Borel
- Kummer
- Peano
- Frobenius
- Lebesgue
- Gordan
- Einstein
- Hermann
- Riesz
- Boole
- Konig
- Stokes
- Frege
- Kronecker
- Neumann
- Bolyai
- Wedderburn
- Whitehead
- Noether
- Banach
- Godel
- Jacobi
- Steinitz
- Chelsea
- Lobatchevsky
- Ptolemy
- Kepler
- Desargues
- Diophantus
- Leonardo
- John Wallis
- Tartaglia
- James Gregory
- Heron
- Oresme
- Newton
- Stevin
- Macmillan
- Pacioli
- John Bernoulli
- Euclid
- Hipparchus
- Roberval
- Schriften
- Stifel
- Menelaus
- David Eugene
- Aristotle
- Alberti
- Cavalieri
- Taylor
- J. F.
- John Wiley
- Francis
- Coolidge
- Pascal
- Aristarchus
- Proclus
- Julian L.
- Carl B.
- Alexander
- Huygens
- Struik
- Boyer
- W. W. R.
- B. G. Teubner
- Geschichte Der Mathematik
- Moritz
Setting & Locations edit
- Bolzano
- Dover
- Lagrange
- Berlin
- Gottingen
- Jordan
- Fredholm
- De France
- Europe
- Alexandria
- Germany
- Cremona
- Novi Comm
- Paris
- Italy
- Egypt
- Rome
- Greece
- Cardan
- Near East
- Bologna
- Babylonia
- Spain
- Principia
- Syracuse
- Pisa
- Cajori
- Cambridge
- India
- Mesopotamia
- France
- Bagdad
- England
- Mersenne
- Sicily
- London
First Sentence edit
Mathematics as an organized, independent, and reasoned discipline did not exist before the classical Greeks of the period from 600 to 300 B.C. entered upon the scene.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Morris Kline (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1990
ISBN: 0195061357
Page Count: 390
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1990
ISBN: 0195061357
Page Count: 390
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- Dewey: 510.9
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