Brief History of Numbers - Hardcover
by Leo Corry
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University Press (UK)ISBN-13:9780198702597ISBN-10:198702590UPC:9780198702597Book Category:MathematicsBook Subcategory:History & Philosophy, Number TheorySize:9.30 x 5.90 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SCC47D5RTM
Brief History of Numbers
The world around us is saturated with numbers. They are a fundamental pillar of our modern society, and accepted and used with hardly a second thought. But how did this state of affairs come to be? In this book, Leo Corry tells the story behind the idea of number from the early days of the Pythagoreans, up until the turn of the twentieth century. He presents an overview of how numbers were...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University Press (UK)ISBN-13:9780198702597ISBN-10:198702590UPC:9780198702597Book Category:MathematicsBook Subcategory:History & Philosophy, Number TheorySize:9.30 x 5.90 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SCC47D5RTM
Leo Corry Leo Corry is a historian of mathematics with a very broad range of interest, that comprise, among other things, the history of modern algebra, the history of number theory, the history of general relativity, and the Euclidean tradition in the middle ages and the early modern period. He has published extensively in all these fields. He teaches at Tel Aviv University, where he is the Bert...
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
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