Sherlock Holmes in Babylon

and Other Tales of Mathematical History

Marlow Anderson, Victor Katz, Robin Wilson

390 pages, parution le 30/09/2004

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This book is a collection of 44 articles on the history of mathematics, published in MAA journals over the past 100 years. Covering a span of almost 4000 years, from the ancient Babylonians to the eighteenth century, it chronicles the enormous changes in mathematical thinking over this time, as viewed by distinguished historians of mathematics from the past (Florian Cajori, Max Dehn, David Eugene Smith, Julian Lowell Coolidge, and Carl Boyer etc.) and the present.

Each of the four sections of the book (Ancient Mathematics, Medieval and Renaissance Mathematics, The Seventeenth Century, The Eighteenth Century) is preceded by a Foreword, in which the articles are put into historical context, and followed by an Afterword, in which they are reviewed in the light of current historical scholarship. In more than one case, two articles on the same topic are included, to show how knowledge and views about the topic changed over the years. This book will be enjoyed by anyone interested in mathematics and its history?and in particular by mathematics teachers at secondary, college, and university levels.

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Ancient Mathematics
Medieval and Renaissance Mathematics
The Seventeenth Century
The Eighteenth Century

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Éditeur(s)	The Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
Auteur(s)	Marlow Anderson, Victor Katz, Robin Wilson
Parution	30/09/2004
Nb. de pages	390
Format	19,5 x 27
Couverture	Relié
Poids	970g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780883855461