A Brief History of Mathematics - Softcover

Fink, Karl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1602063850 ISBN 13: 9781602063853

Verlag: Cosimo Classics, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

A Brief History of Mathematics is the only published work of German doctor KARL FINK (1851-1898), translated in this edition by WOOSTER WOODRUFF BEMAN (1850-1922) and DAVID EUGENE SMITH (1860-1944). Written for both math students and professors, it is an introduction to the history of math, concerned with the evolution from number systems to symbols, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry. In order to keep his book short and to the point, Fink omits the usual biographies of great mathematicians because while he feels such biographies give a human touch to what is normally considered a cold science, Fink wished to help students be better mathematicians, which requires understanding how the discipline was built up, not necessarily who did it.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cosimo Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1602063850
• ISBN 13: 9781602063853
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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