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The updated new edition of the classic and comprehensive guideto the history of mathematics
For more than forty years, A History of Mathematics has been thereference of choice for those looking to learn about thefascinating history of humankind’s relationship with numbers,shapes, and patterns. This revised edition features up-to-datecoverage of topics such as Fermat’s Last Theorem and the PoincaréConjecture, in addition to recent advances in areas such as finitegroup theory and computer-aided proofs.
Distills thousands of years of mathematics into a single,approachable volume
Covers mathematical discoveries, concepts, and thinkers, fromAncient Egypt to the present
Includes up-to-date references and an extensive chronologicaltable of mathematical and general historical developments.
For more than forty years, A History of Mathematics has been thereference of choice for those looking to learn about thefascinating history of humankind’s relationship with numbers,shapes, and patterns. This revised edition features up-to-datecoverage of topics such as Fermat’s Last Theorem and the PoincaréConjecture, in addition to recent advances in areas such as finitegroup theory and computer-aided proofs.
Distills thousands of years of mathematics into a single,approachable volume
Covers mathematical discoveries, concepts, and thinkers, fromAncient Egypt to the present
Includes up-to-date references and an extensive chronologicaltable of mathematical and general historical developments.