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Stedall, Jacqueline A.
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The history of mathematics : a very short introduction / Jacqueline Stedall.
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Stedall, Jacqueline A.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Subjects
Mathematics -- History.
ISBN:
9780199599684 (pbk.) :
0199599688
Series:
Very short introductions ; 305.
Description:
xvii, 123 p. ; 18 cm.
Contents:
1. Mathematics: myth and history; 2. What is mathematics and who is a mathematician?; 3. How are mathematical ideas disseminated?; 4. Learning mathematics; 5. Mathematical livelihoods; 6. Getting inside mathematics; 7. The evolving historiography of mathematics.
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In this Very Short Introduction, Jacqueline Stedall explores the rich historical and cultural diversity of mathematical endeavour from the distant past to the present day, using illustrative case studies drawn from a range of times and places; including early imperial China, the medieval Islamic world, and nineteenth-century Britain.
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Hawaii State Library
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