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Biggs, Norman, author.
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Mathematics -- History.
Mathematics -- Social aspects.
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Quite right : the st...
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Quite right : the story of mathematics, measurement, and money / Norman Biggs, emeritus professor of mathematics, London School of Economics.
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Biggs, Norman, author.
Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Subjects
Mathematics -- History.
Mathematics -- Social aspects.
ISBN:
9780198753353 (hbk) :
0198753357 (hbk)
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viii, 176 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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First edition.
Contents:
The unwritten story -- The dawn of civilization -- From tax and trade to theorems -- The age of algorithms -- The end of the Middle Ages -- A new world of mathematics -- Mathematics ascending -- Taking a chance -- Modelling and measuring -- Mathematics and money in the age of information -- Can mathematics keep us safe?
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"My aim is to explain how mathematical ideas evolved in response to the growing levels of organization in human societies, from pre-historic times to the present day"--
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