History of Mathematics, Vol. 1: General Survey of the History of Elementary Mathematics
by David Eugene Smith
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Volume I of an unusually clear and readable two-volume history -- from Egyptian papyri and medieval maps to modern graphs and diagrams. Non-technical chronological survey with thousands of biographical notes, critical evaluations, and contemporary opinions on over 1,100 mathematicians.Tags
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The beginning of this book was utterly fantastic, but once I hit the survey portion of Volume 1, the content dropped like a rock and I found myself back in the realm of dates and names ad nauseum. I'm looking forward to Volume 2, but I may need to take a little break first. I hope it gets away from the biographical surveys and back to the math and all its interrelations.
If any of you are curious about the book and looking for its strengths, I direct you to the section toward the start regarding pre-history and each culture's radix. There's such food for thought that I had to read it a paragraph at a time, savoring over each idea, letting them dissolve into my understanding. Brilliant stuff.
If any of you are curious about the book and looking for its strengths, I direct you to the section toward the start regarding pre-history and each culture's radix. There's such food for thought that I had to read it a paragraph at a time, savoring over each idea, letting them dissolve into my understanding. Brilliant stuff.
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- History of Mathematics, Vol. 1: General Survey of the History of Elementary Mathematics
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- 1925
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