Ics — will find it engrossing and stimulatingBeginning with the ancient Near East the author traces the ideas and techniques developed in Egypt Babylonia China and Arabia looking into such manuscripts as the Egyptian Papyrus Rhind the Ten Classics of China and the Concise History of ePUB ´ Siddhantas of India He considers Greek and Roman developments from their beginnings in Ionian rationalism to the fall of Constantinople covers medieval European ideas and Renaissance trends analyzes th and th century contributions and offers an illuminating exposition of th century concepts Every important figure in mathematical history is dealt with — Euclid Archimedes Diophantus Omar Khayyam Boethius.
concise pdf history mobile mathematics epub A Concise pdf History of free Concise History of kindle A Concise History of Mathematics EpubIcs — will find it engrossing and stimulatingBeginning with the ancient Near East the author traces the ideas and techniques developed in Egypt Babylonia China and Arabia looking into such manuscripts as the Egyptian Papyrus Rhind the Ten Classics of China and the Concise History of ePUB ´ Siddhantas of India He considers Greek and Roman developments from their beginnings in Ionian rationalism to the fall of Constantinople covers medieval European ideas and Renaissance trends analyzes th and th century contributions and offers an illuminating exposition of th century concepts Every important figure in mathematical history is dealt with — Euclid Archimedes Diophantus Omar Khayyam Boethius.
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A Concise History of Mathematics Kindle ½ History of concise pdf, history mobile, mathematics epub, A Concise pdf, History of free, Concise History of kindle, A Concise History of Mathematics EpubWhile I was reading this book my mom told me that Dirk Struik was a communist I knew she had tremendous knowledge about 20th century intellectuals and artists being communists but I had no idea this knowledge extended to mathematicians At any rate the occasional talk about the effect of the class structure on the history of math was the most fun part of the book It is otherwise Eurocentric and superficial I wanted much actual discussion of the ideas themselves Where
A Concise History of Mathematics Kindle ½ History of concise pdf, history mobile, mathematics epub, A Concise pdf, History of free, Concise History of kindle, A Concise History of Mathematics EpubThis is a mandatory book for those who love math For those who doesn't understand math you can still read this with no difficulty There is very little math on the book Although there many references on math work which might be uninteresting if the read doesn't understand mathIt is a resume of math through human history In a nutshell who discover what and who publish
A Concise History of Mathematics Kindle ½ History of concise pdf, history mobile, mathematics epub, A Concise pdf, History of free, Concise History of kindle, A Concise History of Mathematics EpubI don't usually write reviews but regarding this book I think a reader needs some preparation As a university student who has taken and is going to take quite a few pure math courses I started reading from Chapter 6 the seventeenth century It was so exhilarating to read such that I didn't stop until I reached the end of Chapter 9 the ninet
A Concise History of Mathematics Kindle ½ History of concise pdf, history mobile, mathematics epub, A Concise pdf, History of free, Concise History of kindle, A Concise History of Mathematics EpubNot as good as I hopedIt started out ok but the last few chapters are just a barrage of names and subjects with no real look at the underlying ideas The Kindle edition also has problems with some of the formatting turning exponents into footnotes
A Concise History of Mathematics Kindle ½ History of concise pdf, history mobile, mathematics epub, A Concise pdf, History of free, Concise History of kindle, A Concise History of Mathematics EpubI found this dull and though crammed with data pretty uninformative Read Morris Kline's Mathematics and or in Western Culture instead
A Concise History of Mathematics Kindle ½ History of concise pdf, history mobile, mathematics epub, A Concise pdf, History of free, Concise History of kindle, A Concise History of Mathematics EpubA mathematics professor now retired recommended this and I agree it remains a substantial but compact overview of the history of mathematical ideas In it Struik balances social and historical context with accompanying description of mathematical concepts and theories I found it so good that I was interested in both the human history as well as the math being discus
A Concise History of Mathematics Kindle ½ History of concise pdf, history mobile, mathematics epub, A Concise pdf, History of free, Concise History of kindle, A Concise History of Mathematics EpubI gave this book two stars for several reasons First off after getting past chapter seven this got boring really fast For that reason there was really not anything new to be exposed to except the same mathematicians who discovered the same things that you would see today in Calculus and Differential Equations
A Concise History of Mathematics Kindle ½ History of concise pdf, history mobile, mathematics epub, A Concise pdf, History of free, Concise History of kindle, A Concise History of Mathematics EpubThis started quite well but turned into a way of beating myself up with my own ignorance If the later chapters had been as detailed as the earlier ones I'd have felt a little bit less dim Then George Boole popped up and for almost half a page I knew what he was talking about and then oh no he's gone I'm thick again
A Concise History of Mathematics Kindle ½ History of concise pdf, history mobile, mathematics epub, A Concise pdf, History of free, Concise History of kindle, A Concise History of Mathematics EpubI'm disappointed because the book is just a list of people and the texts they've written essentially What I'm really looking for is context around mathematical discoveries