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Published by Main Street, NY2001, 2002
ISBN 10: 140271162XISBN 13: 9781402711626
Seller: THE OLD LIBRARY SHOP, Bethlehem, PA, U.S.A.
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Hard Cover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 3rd ptg. 10" square; laminated color photo cover with photo repeated on dust jacket; 160pp including index; glossy paper; color photos. Hardcover (dj).
Published by NY.2001. Main Street/Sterling Publishing Co. facsimile reprint of the 1912 original., 2001
ISBN 10: 1402700539ISBN 13: 9781402700538
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
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small, thick red & gilt decorative (labyrinth on cover) hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. bit of shelf rubbing along bottom of spine. edges clean. erasure spot on front flyleaf, otherwise contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ first printing ( nap) of this reprint of the Macmillan 1912 5th edition original. xxii+522p. index. history. history of science. biography. scientific biograpies. egyptian mathematics. phoenician mathematics. pythagrorean schools. alexandrian schools. schools of athens and cyzicus. byzantine mathematics. the schools of the arab mathematics. the renaissance. descartes. huygens.newton. leibnitz. lagrange. laplace. gauss. riemann. ~ Aristotle, Galileo, Kepler, Newton~you know the names, here's the book that will tell you what they really did. It covers in detail the historical development of mathematics and includes the early major the orists and their discoveries.The basis of arithmetic starts with the ancient Greeks, including Plato and the introduction of geometry in the method of analysis. The use of Arabic numerals brought math lightyears into the future, and was critical in the development of both commerce and science. The introduction of calculus helped make space travel possible, while the abacus was the pre cursor of the calculator. There is Leonardo da Vinci, whose fame as an artist has over shadowed his achievements as a mathematician; Pascal, who laid down the principles of the theory of probabilities; and Fermat and his intriguing theorem. Without these pioneers, our lives would be very different, because the growth of our society is inter woven with that of mathematics. And this is how it began.