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035 _a(OCoLC)45989644
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050 0 0 _aQA 21
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100 1 _aMankiewicz, Richard.
245 1 4 _aThe story of mathematics /
_cRichard Mankiewicz ; [foreword by Ian Stewart].
260 _aPrinceton, N.J. :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2000]
300 _a192 p. :
_bill. (some col.), col. maps ;
_c23 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 188-189) and index.
520 _aThis 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.
505 0 _aYear 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.
650 0 _aMathematics
_xHistory.
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aMankiewicz, Richard.
_tStory of mathematics.
_dPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2000]
_w(OCoLC)761103068
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/prin021/00107068.html
856 4 1 _3Table of contents
_uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/00107068.html
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