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Loading... A Short Account of the History of Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics) (original 1888; edition 2010)by W. W. Rouse Ball, Mathematics
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This is a new printing, the first inexpensive one, of one of the most honored histories of mathematics of all time. When the last revised edition appeared in 1908, it was hailed by mathematicians and laymen alike, and it remains one of the clearest, most authoritative, and most accurate works in the field. Mathematicians welcomed it as a lucid overview of the development of mathematics down through the centuries. Laymen welcomed it as a work which gave them an opportunity to understand the development of one of the most recondite and difficult of all intellectual endeavors, and the individua No library descriptions found. |
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