A history of mathematics / Carl B. Boyer ; revised by Uta C. Merzbach
- Bib ID:
- 2907268
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Boyer, Carl B. (Carl Benjamin), 1906-
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- Table of Contents
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Wiley, c1989
- xviii, 762 p. : ill., ports ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0471097632
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Origins.
- Egypt.
- Mesopotamia.
- Ionia and the Pythagoreans.
- The Heroic Age.
- The Age of Plato and Aristotle.
- Euclid of Alexandria.
- Archimedes of Syracuse.
- Apollonius of Perga.
- Greek Trigonometry and Mensuration.
- Revival and Decline of Greek Mathematics.
- China and India.
- The Arabic Hegemony.
- Europe in the Middle Ages.
- The Renaissance.
- Prelude to Modern Mathematics.
- The Time of Fermat and Descartes.
- A Transitional Period.
- Newton and Leibniz.
- The Bernoulli Era.
- The Age of Euler.
- Mathematicians of the French Revolution.
- The Time of Gauss and Cauchy.
- Geometry.
- Analysis.
- Algebra.
- Poincar? and Hilbert.
- Aspects of the Twentieth Century.
- References.
- General Bibliography.
- Appendix.
- Index.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 713-723.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Merzbach, Uta C., 1933-
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