The History of Mathematics: A Source-Based Approach Volume 2 (AMS/MAA Textbooks) - Softcover

June Barrow-Green (author)|Jeremy Gray (author)|Robin Wilson (author)

 
9781470472993: The History of Mathematics: A Source-Based Approach Volume 2 (AMS/MAA Textbooks)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1470472996 ISBN 13: 9781470472993
Publisher: American Mathematical Society, 2022

Synopsis

The History of Mathematics: A Source-Based Approach is a comprehensive history of the development of mathematics. This, the second volume of a two-volume set, takes the reader from the invention of the calculus to the beginning of the twentieth century. The initial discoverers of calculus are given thorough investigation, and special attention is also paid to Newton's Principia. The eighteenth century is presented as primarily a period of the development of calculus, particularly in differential equations and applications of mathematics.

Mathematics blossomed in the nineteenth century and the book explores progress in geometry, analysis, foundations, algebra, and applied mathematics, especially celestial mechanics. The approach throughout is markedly historiographic: How do we know what we know? How do we read the original documents? What are the institutions supporting mathematics? Who are the people of mathematics? The reader learns not only the history of mathematics, but also how to think like a historian.

The two-volume set was designed as a textbook for the authors' acclaimed year-long course at the Open University. It is, in addition to being an innovative and insightful textbook, an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the history of mathematics. The authors, each among the most distinguished mathematical historians in the world, have produced over fifty books and earned scholarly and expository prizes from the major mathematical societies of the English-speaking world.

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About the Author

June Barrow-Green, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom.

Jeremy Gray, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom.

Robin Wilson, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom.

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Publisher
American Mathematical Society
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1470472996
ISBN 13 
9781470472993
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
687

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