Routes of Learning – Highways, Pathways, and Byways in the History of Mathematics - Softcover

Grattan, Ivor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801892481 ISBN 13: 9780801892486

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009

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"Ivor Grattan-Guinness has been a leader in the field for decades. His ideas are at times contentious, which is all the more reason to have them all together in one volume. There is nothing else available like this, because there is no other researcher like Grattan-Guinness. This volume is a must for math historians, math philosophers, and all collegiate libraries."

(Amy Shell-Gellasch, editor of From Calculus to Computers: Using the Last 200 Years of Mathematics History in the Classroom)

"Here, Grattan-Guinness, one of the world's leading mathematics historians, has written the seminal how-to-book for the history of mathematics... This reviewer found the book hard to put down."

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"In spite of the great variation in themes, the book is quite coherent and gives anyone dealing with the history of mathematics food for thought."

(Teun Koetsier History and Philosophy of Logic)

"This book will be appreciated by anyone with an interest in mathematical history and education, while the wide-ranging bibliographies for each chapter provide a valuable guide for further reading."

(Paul Taylor Mathematics Today)

"A good contribution to the literature on the field by its wealth of resources. Readers can get in touch with diverse and many lines of scientific thought and ideas."

(Gilda de La Rocque Palis ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education)

"A useful introduction into the field of history of mathematics."

(Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze Archives Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences)

About the Author:

Ivor Grattan-Guinness is a professor emeritus of the history of mathematics and logic at Middlesex University. He is author of Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800–1840: From the Calculus and Mechanics to Mathematical Analysis and Mathematical Physics and editor of the Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences, also published by Johns Hopkins.

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0801892481
• ISBN 13: 9780801892486
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384