Jacqueline Stedall (Senior Research Fellow, The Queen's College, Ox

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The History of Mathematics

A Very Short Introduction

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Jacqueline Stedall researched and taught history of mathematics at the University of Oxford. She wrote a number of books on Early Modern European mathematics and co-edited, with Eleanor Robson, The Oxford Handbook of the history of mathematics. She was a longstanding member of the British Society for the History of Mathematics and Editor of its Bulletin.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 181mm x 113mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 132g
• ISBN-13: 9780199599684
• ISBN-10: 0199599688
• Artikelnr.: 34379100