Revised to make it more accessible to a general audience, A HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS paints a vivid picture of humankind's relationship with numbers. Updated and expanded, it now offers broadened coverage of 20th century advances in probability and computers, and updated references to further reading. A feature that will be of interest to every reader is an appendix containing an extensive chronological table of mathematical and general historical developments.
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Revised to make it more accessible to a general audience, A HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS paints a vivid picture of humankind's relationship with numbers. Updated and expanded, it now offers broadened coverage of 20th century advances in probability and computers, and updated references to further reading. A feature that will be of interest to every reader is an appendix containing an extensive chronological table of mathematical and general historical developments.
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This is an ambitious book: the history of math from the early records of Egypt to the Hilbert's programm. But the presentation and the explanations suffer from it.
