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A History of Mathematics
From Mesopotamia to Modernity
Luke Hodgkin
296 pages
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numerous figures & halftones
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246x189mm
978-0-19-852937-8
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Hardback
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02 June 2005
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This item is printed to order. Items which are printed to order are normally despatched and charged within 5-10 days.
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- Excellent addition to existing literature
- Contains exercises (with solutions) to stretch the more advanced reader
- Broad global coverage of mathematical development through time
- Class-tested, ideal teaching material
- Suitable for students of mathematics, philosophy and history
- With extensive bibliography and cross-references to key texts
- More than 100 illustrations and figures
A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity covers the evolution of mathematics through time and across the major Eastern and Western civilizations. It begins in Babylon, then describes the trials and tribulations of the Greek mathematicians. The important, and often neglected, influence of both Chinese and Islamic mathematics is covered in detail, placing the description of early Western mathematics in a global context. The book concludes with modern mathematics, covering recent developments such as the advent of the computer, chaos theory, topology, mathematical physics, and the solution of Fermat's Last Theorem.
Containing more than 100
illustrations and figures, this text, aimed at advanced undergraduates and postgraduates, addresses the methods and challenges associated with studying the history of mathematics. The reader is introduced to the leading figures in the history of mathematics (including Archimedes, Ptolemy, Qin Jiushao, al-Kashi, al-Khwarizmi, Galileo, Newton, Leibniz, Helmholtz, Hilbert, Alan Turing, and Andrew Wiles) and their fields. An extensive bibliography with cross-references to key texts will provide invaluable resource to students and exercises (with solutions) will stretch the more advanced reader. Readership: Students of mathematics, philosophy and history taking a course in the history of science or
mathematics.
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Luke Hodgkin, King's College, London
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"The book contains more than 100 illustrations, pictures and figures, and many exercises (with solutions). An extensive bibliography with cross-references will be very helpful for students and readers. The book will be interesting for undergraduate and postgraduate students of mathematics and other readers interested in the history and philosophy of mathematics." - EMS Newsletter "Interesting and insightful." - Herbert Kasube, MAA Online "Hodgkin makes a convincing case for the importance of Ismaic mathematics." - The Times Higher
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Introduction
1: Babylonian mathematics
2: Greeks and 'Origins'
3: Greeks, practical and theoretical
4: Chinese mathematics
5: Islam, neglect and discovery
6: Understanding the 'Scientific Revolution'
7: The Calculus
8: Geometries and Space
9: Modernity and its Anxieties
10: A Chaotic End?
Bibliography
Index
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