An Introduction to the History of Mathematics

By Howard W. Eves

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• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B000JD6SXQ
• Release Date: January 1960
• Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A fun place to start on the history of mathematics.

You can have fun as you recreate the condition and think as the ancients did. You may find secrets that were lost to us. Many useful ways of thinking if you do not have one of the new-fangled handheld calculators that do everything for you. Contents: Part 1 - Systems Part 2 - Babylonian and Egyptian Mathematics Part 3 - Pythagorean Mathematics Part 4 - Duplication, Try Section, and Quadrature. Part 5 - Euclid and his elements Part 6 - Greek Mathematics after Euclid Part 7 - Chinese, Hindu, and Arabian Mathematics Part 8 - European Mathematics, 500 to 1600 Part 9 - The Dawn of Modern Mathematics Part 10 - A-n-a-l-y-t-i-c geometry and other pre-calculus developments Part 11 - The calculus and related concepts Part 12 - The 18th century and the exploration of the calculus Part 13 - The early 19th century and the liberation of geometry and algebra Part 14 - The latter 19th century and the arithmetization of a-n-a-l-y-s-i-s Part 15 - Abstraction and the transition into the 20th century At the end of each part, there are essay topics and a generous bibliography. You will want to keep your old edition and get the latest, as each edition applies different information.