Mathematics : a curious history : from early number concepts to chaos theory
Levy, Joel, 1971-2018
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'Mathematics' opens new doors to the amazing world of maths. Telling the exciting story from a historical perspective, it shows how mathematical science advanced through the discoveries of the ancient Babylonians, Egyptians and Greeks, the great scholars of medieval Islam and Europe, and the Renaissance and the birth of the Scientific Revolution. This is all explored in a real world context by the renowned science writer Joel Levy. From the simplest concepts of numbers and arithmetic, geometry and algebra, trigonometry and calculus, right through to infinity and chaos theory, 'Mathematics' introduces and explains the most important concepts in accessible, non-technical language.
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London : Andre Deutsch, 2018.
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191 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) ; 22 cm
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Originally published: as A curious history of mathematics. 2013.Includes index.
ISBN:
9780233005447 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
264551
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