Introducing Mathematics

by Borin Van Loon (Author), Borin Van Loon (Author), Ziauddin Sardar (Author), Jerry Ravetz (Author)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $4.36

  This text traces the development of mathematics through some of its major turning points, occasions when counter-intuitive ideas such as the square root of minus one and space-filling curves, have forced themselves upon the attention of mathematicians, leading them to rethink their field.

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  Paperback
  2005

  $3.27

  Traces the story of mathematics from the ancient world to modern times, describing the great discoveries and providing accessible introduction to such topics as number-systems, geometry and algebra, the calculas, the theory of the infinite, statistical reasoning and chaos theory.