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The Fontana history of the mathematical sciences : the rainbow of mathematics / Ivor Grattan-Guinness.
Record no.:
4094
Author:
Grattan-Guinness, I.;
Publisher:
London :: Fontana Press,
Year:
1997.
Series:
Fontana history of science
Description:
817 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Subject:
Mathematics - History.;
Mathematics.;
Notes:
Gift ; Nagle Library MacLeod Collection copy donated by Emeritus Professor Roy MacLeod.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 763-788) and index.
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
0006861792 9780006861799;
Abstract:
Beginning with the ancient Greeks and Chinese, this book charts the growth of modern mathematics, the science at the heart of all sciences, from early geometry to the evolution of 'new' branches such as statistics and probability.
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