These insightful commentaries will give mathematicians and general historians a better understanding of why and how mathematics arose from the problems of everyday life, while the author's easy, accessible writing style will open fascinating chapters in the history of mathematics to a wide audience of general readers.
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These insightful commentaries will give mathematicians and general historians a better understanding of why and how mathematics arose from the problems of everyday life, while the author's easy, accessible writing style will open fascinating chapters in the history of mathematics to a wide audience of general readers.
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Add this copy of The Infinite in the Infinite to cart. $4.56, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Oxford University Press, USA.
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Very Good. Very Good Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp. 524. 524 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good dust jacket.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Very nice clean copy. tight binding. clean covers. pages clean and unmarked. appears unread. dust jacket is very nice with no chips or tears. 524 pages.
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Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 0198539509. Creasing of some of the pages in the middle of the book, light wear to dustjacket.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; B&W Illustrations; 9.42 X 6.34 X 1.41 inches; 524 pages; A conversation between Euclid and the ghost of Socrates...the paths of the moon and the sun charted by the stone-builders of ancient Europe...the Greek ideal of the golden mean by which they measured beauty...Combining historical fact with a retelling of ancient myths and legends, this lively and engaging book describes the historical, religious and geographical background that gave rise to mathematics in ancient Egypt, Babylon, China, Greece, India, and the Arab world. Each chapter contains a case study where mathematics is applied to the problems of the era, including the area of triangles and volume of the Egyptian pyramids; the Babylonian sexagesimal number system and our present measure of space and time which grew out of it; the use of the abacus and remainder theory in China; the invention of trigonometry by Arab mathematicians; and the solution of quadratic equations by completing the square developed in India. These insightful commentaries will give mathematicians and general historians a better understanding of why and how mathematics arose from the problems of everyday life, while the author's easy, accessible writing style will open fascinating chapters in the history of mathematics to a wide audience of general readers.
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