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Mathematics Emerging - A Sourcebook 1540 - 1900 (Hardcover)
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Mathematics Emerging - A Sourcebook 1540 - 1900 (Hardcover)
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Aimed at graduates and researchers in Mathematics, History of
Mathematics and Science, this book examines the development of
mathematics from the late 16th Century to the end of the 20th
Century. Mathematics has an amazingly long and rich history, it has
been practised in every society and culture, with written records
reaching back in some cases as far as four thousand years. This
book will focus on just a small part of the story, in a sense the
most recent chapter of it: the mathematics of western Europe from
the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Each chapter will focus
on a particular topic and outline its history with the provision of
facsimiles of primary source material along with explanatory notes
and modern interpretations. Almost every source is given in its
original form, not just in the language in which it was first
written, but as far as practicable in the layout and typeface in
which it was read by contemporaries.This book is designed to
provide mathematics undergraduates with some historical background
to the material that is now taught universally to students in their
final years at school and the first years at college or university:
the core subjects of calculus, analysis, and abstract algebra,
along with others such as mechanics, probability, and number
theory. All of these evolved into their present form in a
relatively limited area of western Europe from the mid sixteenth
century onwards, and it is there that we find the major writings
that relate in a recognizable way to contemporary mathematics.
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