This seminal collection gathers together many general writings
of one of the world's leading historians of mathematics. Organized
thematically, these essays ponder the intellectual underpinnings of
the field, examine the major topics in the history of mathematics,
and recount the bizarre history of pseudomath.
Ivor Grattan-Guinness explores how people understand
mathematics--the routes of learning they take as they make
important discoveries and study mathematical concepts and theories.
The essays in the first part of the book discuss the history of
mathematics as a field and its central philosophical issues. Those
in the next part address the history of mathematics education and
its importance to current modes of teaching. In the last section
Grattan-Guinness investigates various understudied aspects of math,
including numerology, Masonic symbols in classical music, and the
links between mathematics and Christianity.
This collection includes several essays that are difficult to
find anywhere else. All historians of mathematics and students of
the field will want a copy of this remarkable resource on their
bookshelves.
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