Contextual History of Mathematics

Name: Contextual History of Mathematics
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ISBN: 9780023182853

ISBN-10: 0023182857

ISBN-13: 9780023182853

Edition: 1999

Authors: Ronald S. Calinger

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This history of mathematics stresses the historical imperative as to why maths happened from its beginnings to 1800 in Europe and beyond.

Book details

List price: $119.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 7/15/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 736
Size: 7.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.728
Language: English



Preface


Prologue


I



Origins of Number and Culture


II



The Dawning of Mathematics in the Ancient Near East



Beginnings of Theoretical Mathematics in Pre-Socratic Greece



Theoretical Mathematics Established in Fourth-Century Greece



Ancient Mathematical Zenith in the Hellenistic Third Century B.C., I: The Alexandrian Museum and Euclid



Ancient Mathematical Zenith in the Hellenistic Third Century B.C., II: Archimedes to Diocles



Mathematics in Roman and Later Antiquity, Centering in Alexandria



Mathematics in Traditional China from the Late Shang Dynasty to the Mid-Seventeenth Century



Indian Mathematics: From Harappan to Keralan Times


III



Mathematics in the Service of Religion



The Era of Arabic Primacy and a Persian Flourish



Recovery and Expansion in Old Europe, 1000 -1500


The Transition To Modern Mathematics In Europe



The First Phase of the Scientific Revolution, ca. 1450 - 1600: Algebra and Geometry



Transformation ca. 1600 - 1660: I



Transformation ca. 1600 - 1660: II: To the Edge of Modernity



The Apex of the Scientific Revolution I: Setting and Laureates



The Apex of the Scientific Revolution II: Calculus to Probability


Endnotes


Suggested Further Readings


Name Index


Subject Index


Photo Credits