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Paperback A history of elementary mathematics, with hints on methods of teaching Book

ISBN: 9353704103

ISBN13: 9789353704100

A history of elementary mathematics, with hints on methods of teaching

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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long out of print

Dover has done historians and students of mathematics a favour by publishing this long out of print text, from 1917. It was a seminal study of how mathematics developed in the ancient world. Cajori focused on the classical realm of the Mediterranean world. But then also in more recent times, when Europe was in its Dark Ages. He explains how the Arabs and Indians gave their contributions. Especially the role of the Arabs in, albeit inadvertantly, nurturing the maths knowledge painfully accrued in past millenia. Unlike recent texts, there are no snazzy diagrams or whatnot to enliven the narrative. Figures in books were very expensive to arrange in the 1910s. But the writing itself remains lucid.
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