History of Mathematics: Highways and Byways (Spectrum) - Hardcover

Dahan-Dalmedico, Amy; Peiffer, Jeanne

 
9780883855621: History of Mathematics: Highways and Byways (Spectrum)

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A short, innovative and easy-to-read history of mathematics.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Amy Dahan-Dalmedico is director of research at CNRS and assistant director of the Center Alexandre Koyré. Her research has focused on mathematics in the second half of the twentieth century and climate change.

Jeanne Peiffer is a researcher at CNRS and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the History of Mathematics. Her research interests focus mainly on geometry and the connections with Renaissance art; in particular Albrecht Dürer. She has also written extensively about women in mathematics.

Sanford Segal is the author of 44 journal articles in mathematics, the history of mathematics, or mathematical education and the author of two books. His main interest in recent years has been the history of mathematics. He was a professor of the mathematics department at the University of Rochester from 1977 to 2008.

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