Introducing Mathematics

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Icon Books, 1999 - Mathematics - 176 pages
This text traces the development of mathematics through some of its major turning points, occasions when counter-intuitive ideas such as the square root of minus one and space-filling curves, have forced themselves upon the attention of mathematicians, leading them to rethink their field.

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Section 1
5
Section 2
11
Section 3
45
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