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Paperback Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times Book

ISBN: 0195061357

ISBN13: 9780195061352

Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times

(Book #1 in the Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times Series)

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Book Overview

This comprehensive history traces the development of mathematical ideas and the careers of the mathematicians responsible for them. Volume 1 looks at the discipline's origins in Babylon and Egypt, the creation of geometry and trigonometry by the Greeks, and the role of mathematics in the medieval and early modern periods. Volume 2 focuses on calculus, the rise of analysis in the 19th century, and the number theories of Dedekind and Dirichlet. The concluding volume covers the revival of projective geometry, the emergence of abstract algebra, the beginnings of topology, and the influence of Godel on recent mathematical study.

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Rated 5 stars
pretty good

if flawed. Not only do you have to wade through the gentleman amateur flavour of the first couple of hundred pages or so, but Kline manages to describe William Hamilton as 'the greatest English theoretical physicist after Newton'; even an Irishman would concede that the greatest English theoretical physicist after Newton was Maxwell - Hamilton was third. However with the first impact tremors announcing the approach of Leonard...

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Rated 5 stars
Very thorough

As one might expect from a 3-volume history, _Mathematical Thought_ is comprehensive; Kline covers basically all the important mathematical developments from ancient times (e.g. the Babylonians) until about 1930. Note that (as Klein himself mentions) the coverage of ancient mathematics, while taking up a good half of the first volume, is necessarily modest, and if that is the reader's primary interest, s/he would do best...

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Rated 5 stars
Bible of mathematical history and thought.

I found the book in college library. It is the best one on math history I have read.

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