Book ID: CBB000503080

Two Millennia of Mathematics: From Archimedes to Gauss (2000)

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Phillips, George M. (Author)


Springer


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: xii + 223 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Ineichen, Robert (2002) Review of "Two Millennia of Mathematics: From Archimedes to Gauss". Gesnerus (p. 146). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Havil, Julian
Burn, Bob
Burn, R. P.
Cervara, José Antonio
Clark, Kathleen M.
Craik, Alex D. D.
Journals
Historia Mathematica
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Tarikh-e Elm (The Iranian Journal for the History of Science)
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Osmanli Bilimi Arastirmalari: Studies in Ottoman Science
Quaderns d'Història de l'Enginyeria
Publishers
Princeton University Press
El Colegio de Mexico
National Museums of Scotland Publishing
Concepts
Mathematics
Logarithms
Mathematicians
Biographies
Calculus
Number theory; number concept
People
Napier, John
Bails, Benito
Euler, Leonhard
Bürgi, Joost
Caramuel, Juan
de Sarasa, Alphonse Antonio
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
19th century
16th century
20th century
Renaissance
Places
Scotland
Spain
Iran
India
British Isles
China
Institutions
Istanbul Teknik Universitesi
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