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Sherlock Holmes in Babylon: And Other Tales of Mathematical History

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Sherlock Holmes in Babylon: And Other Tales of Mathematical History - Anderson, Marlow (Editor), and Katz, Victor (Editor), and Wilson, Robin (Editor)
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Covering a span of almost 4000 years, from the ancient Babylonians to the eighteenth century, this collection chronicles the enormous changes in mathematical thinking over this time, as viewed by distinguished historians of mathematics from the past and the present. Each of the four sections of the book (Ancient Mathematics, Medieval and Renaissance Mathematics, The Seventeenth Century, The Eighteenth Century) is preceded by a Foreword, in which the articles are put into historical context, and followed by an Afterword, in ...

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Sherlock Holmes in Babylon: And Other Tales of Mathematical History 2004, Mathematical Association of America, Washington

ISBN-13: 9780883855461

Hardcover