Telling the story of mathematics from a historical perspective, this book shows how mathematical science advanced through the discoveries of the ancient Babylonians, Egyptians and Greeks, the great scholars of medieval Island and Europe, and the Renaissance and the birth of the Scientific Revolution. From the simplest concepts of numbers and arithmetic, geometry and algebra, trigonomety and calculus, right through to infinity and chaos theory.
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Hardie Grant Books
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Curious History of Mathematics The Big Ideas from Early Numbers to Chaos Theory
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ISBN:
9780233003856
Format:
Hardback
Pages:
192
Dimensions:
22cm x 17cm
RRP:
$29.99
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joel Levy
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