Mathematics in Historical Context

出版者:Mathematical Association of America

作者:Jeff Suzuki

页数:409

出版时间:2009-7-30

价格:USD 58.50

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780883855706

丛书系列:Spectrum Series

图书标签:数学史数学inMathematicsHistoricalContext2009

What would Newton see if he looked out his bedroom window? This book describes the world around the important mathematicians of the past, and explores the complex interaction between mathematics, mathematicians, and society. It takes the reader on a grand tour of history from the ancient Egyptians to the twentieth century to show how mathematicians and mathematics were affected by the outside world, and at the same time how the outside world was affected by mathematics and mathematicians. Part biography, part mathematics, and part history, this book provides the interested layperson the background to understand mathematics and the history of mathematics, and is suitable for supplemental reading in any history of mathematics course.