The story of mathematics / Richard Mankiewicz ; [foreword by Ian Stewart].

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2000]Description: 192 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 069108808X
  • 9780691088082
  • 0691120463 (pbk.)
  • 9780691120461 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Story of mathematics.LOC classification:
  • QA 21 .M23 2000
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Contents:
Year zero -- Watchers of the skies -- The Pythagorean theorem -- The elements -- Ten computational canons -- Mathematical sutras -- The house of wisdom -- The liberal arts -- The Renaissance perspective -- Mathematics for the common wealth -- The marriage of algebra and geometry -- The clockwork universe -- Mathemathics in motion -- Oceans and stars -- The quintic -- New geometries -- Dialects of algebra -- Fields of action -- Catching infinity -- Of dice and genes -- War games -- Mathematics and modern art -- Machine codes -- Chaos and complexity.
Summary: This visually arresting volume takes the reader on an illustrated tour of mathematics across cultures and civilizations, bringing to life a world of important ideas and also great intrigue and charm. It is a rich amalgam of history, biography and popular science. Illustrations and halftones.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-189) and index.

This visually arresting volume takes the reader on an illustrated tour of mathematics across cultures and civilizations, bringing to life a world of important ideas and also great intrigue and charm. It is a rich amalgam of history, biography and popular science. Illustrations and halftones.

Year zero -- Watchers of the skies -- The Pythagorean theorem -- The elements -- Ten computational canons -- Mathematical sutras -- The house of wisdom -- The liberal arts -- The Renaissance perspective -- Mathematics for the common wealth -- The marriage of algebra and geometry -- The clockwork universe -- Mathemathics in motion -- Oceans and stars -- The quintic -- New geometries -- Dialects of algebra -- Fields of action -- Catching infinity -- Of dice and genes -- War games -- Mathematics and modern art -- Machine codes -- Chaos and complexity.

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