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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics

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Verkaufsrang16631inMathematik
CHF183.00

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This Handbook explores the history of mathematics, addressing what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practice it. Thirty-six self-contained chapters, each written by a specialist, provide a fascinating overview of 5000 years of mathematics and its key cultures for academics in mathematics, historians of science, and general historians.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-19-921312-2
ProduktartBuch
EinbandGebunden
ErscheinungslandVereinigtes Königreich
Erscheinungsdatum18.12.2008
Seiten926 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 184 mm, Höhe 250 mm, Dicke 51 mm
Gewicht1733 g
Illustrationen90 line illustrations, 57 halftones
Artikel-Nr.5843847
KatalogBuchzentrum
Datenquelle-Nr.22688438
WarengruppeMathematik
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Eleanor Robson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She is the author of Mesopotamian mathematics, 2100-1600 BC (1999), Mathematics in ancient Iraq: a social history (2008), and many articles on the socio-intellectual history of the cuneiform world. She is co-director of an AHRC-funded project on the geography of knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia. Jacqueline Stedall is Junior Research Fellow in Mathematics at The Queen's College, Oxford. Her research focuses on European mathematics from the 16th century to the 18th with a special interest in the development of algebra. Recent publications include Mathematics Emerging: a sourcebook, 1540-1900 (2008) and The 'Magisteria magna' of Thomas Harriot (2008, with Janet Beery). She is also editor of the BSHSM Bulletin, journal of the British Society of the History of Mathematics.