Mathematics, Queen and Servant of ScienceAn integration and amplification of two earlier volumes by the same author: The queen of the sciences, 1931 and The handmaiden of the sciences, 1937, this book presents a history of pure and applied mathematics. |
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| Title | Mathematics, Queen and Servant of Science |
| Author | Eric Temple Bell |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill, 1951 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | May 23, 2007 |
| Length | 437 pages |
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