A Short Account of the History of MathematicsThis text remains one of the clearest, most authoritative and most accurate works in the field. The standard history treats hundreds of figures and schools instrumental in the development of mathematics, from the Phoenicians to such 19th-century giants as Grassman, Galois, and Riemann. |
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| Title | A Short Account of the History of Mathematics Dover Books on Mathematics Series Dover Publications. [Publications] T630 Dover classics of science and mathematics Dover science books |
| Author | Walter William Rouse Ball |
| Edition | illustrated, unabridged, reprint |
| Publisher | Courier Corporation, 1960 |
| ISBN | 0486206300, 9780486206301 |
| Length | 522 pages |
| Subjects | › Mathematics / General Mathematics / History & Philosophy Science / General |
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