Synopses & Reviews
Appropriate for undergraduate and select graduate courses in the history of mathematics, and in the history of science. This edited volume of readings contains more than 130 selections from eminent mathematicians from A `h-mose' to Hilbert and Noether. The chapter introductions comprise a concise history of mathematics based on critical textual analysis and the latest scholarship. Each reading is preceded by a substantial biography of its author. |
Synopsis
Appropriate for undergraduate and select graduate courses in the history of mathematics, and in the history of science. This edited volume of readings contains more than 130 selections from eminent mathematicians from A h-mose' to Hilbert and Noether. The chapter introductions comprise a concise history of mathematics based on critical textual analysis and the latest scholarship. Each reading is preceded by a substantial biography of its author.
Table of Contents
Preface.
Introduction.
1. Protomathematics in the Late Age of Stone and in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt.
2. The Rise of Theoretical Mathematics in Ancient Greece.
3. The Hellenistic and Roman Periods.
4. Arabic Primacy with Hindu, Chinese, and Maya Contributions.
5. The Medieval-Renaissance-Reformation Periods in Europe.
6. The Scientific Revolution at its Zenith.
7. The Enlightenment (1720-1800).
8. The Nineteenth Century.
9. The Early Twentieth Century to 1932.