Routes of Learning: Highways, Pathways, and Byways in the History of Mathematics

by Ivor Grattan-Guinness

Book Overview

This seminal collection gathers together many general writings of one of the world's leading historians of mathematics. Organized thematically, these essays ponder the intellectual underpinnings of the field, examine the major topics in the history of mathematics, and recount the bizarre history of pseudomath.

Ivor Grattan-Guinness explores how people understand mathematics--the routes of learning they take as they make important discoveries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801892481
• ISBN13: 9780801892486
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"