History of Mathematics, Volume 2Courier Corporation, 1 giu 1958 - 736 pagine Within this two-volume edition, Professor Smith covers the entire history of mathematics in the Near and Far East and the West, from primitive number concepts to the calculus. His account is distinguished by impeccable scholarship combined with unusual clarity and readability. Footnotes add many technical points outside the book's actual line of development and direct the reader to disputed matters and source readings. Hundreds of illustrations from Egyptian papyri, Hindu, Chinese, and Japanese manuscripts, Greek and Roman texts, Medieval treatises, maps, portraits, etc. are used along with modern graphs and diagrams. |
Sommario
DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARITHMETICA | 1 |
LOGISTIC OF NATURAL NUMBERS | 32 |
MECHANICAL AIDS TO CALCULATION | 156 |
32 | 168 |
THE ABACUS | 180 |
FINGER RECKONING | 196 |
MODERN CALCULATING MACHINES | 206 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 208 |
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