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A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity

By Luke Hodgkin

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2005
ISBN
9780198529378, 0198529376
Open Library ID
OL7400563M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4417159 bytes)
Edition
illustrated edition
Pages
296\296
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

Although the chapter topics follow the current model of history of mathematics text books (compare the table of contents Victor J. Katz's history of mathematics; notably similar), the text has a strength, depth, and honesty found all too seldom in a text book mathematical history. This is not the typical text-book on technical history that can be dismissed (as Victor J. Katz's should be) as "a pack of lies" with only "slight exageration" (to quote William Berkson's Fields of Force).Also, the text is bold enough to quote and translate the actual and typical style of presentation used in Bourbaki meetings: "tu es demembere foutu Bourbaki" ("you are dismmembered [..]) [a telegram sent by Bourbaki group to Cartan, informing him that his book was accepted and would be published]. Luke Hodgkin's text dispenses with the asterisk (see p.241).

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