A Brief History of Numbers

Corry, Leo

ISBN 10: 0198702590 / ISBN 13: 9780198702597

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2015

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Inhaltsangabe:

This is the story behind the idea of number, from the Pythagoreans, up until the turn of the 20th century, through Greek, Islamic & European mathematics.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Leo Corry is a historian of mathematics with a very broad range of interest, that comprise, among other things, the history of modern algebra, the history of number theory, the history of general relativity, and the Euclidean tradition in the middle ages and the early modern period. He has published extensively in all these fields.

He teaches at Tel Aviv University, where he is the Bert and Barbara Cohn Professor of History and Philosophy of Science. Since 2013 he is director of the Zvi Yavetz Graduate School of History. He was head of the Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of Science (2003-2009), and editor of the international journal Science in Context (1999-2012).

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Brief History of Numbers
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: New