Benjamin Wardhaugh

Encounters with Euclid (eBook, ePUB)

How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time ... The writing is vivid and the stories are gripping. Highly recommended ' IAN STEWART, AUTHOR OF SIGNIFICANT FIGURES

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780008299927
• Artikelnr.: 59888505

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Wardhaugh is a Fifty-pound Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. His research focuses on the history of numeracy and mathematics, and the ways mathematics influences and is a part of cultures. His work focuses mainly on topics in early modern Britain, including mathematical music theory in that period. He has taught in both the Mathematical Institute and the History Faculty. He is the author of Gunpowder and Geometry and Encounters with Euclid.