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Dover Books on Mathematics Ser.: Mathematics in Ancient Greece by Tobias Dantzig (2006, Perfect)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherDover Publications, Incorporated

ISBN-100486453472

ISBN-139780486453477

eBay Product ID (ePID)54220334

Product Key Features

Number of Pages191 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameMathematics in Ancient Greece

Publication Year2006

SubjectHistory & Philosophy, General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaMathematics

AuthorTobias Dantzig

SeriesDover Books on Mathematics Ser.

FormatPerfect

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight7.7 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2006-050206

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal510.938

SynopsisMore than a history of mathematics, this lively book traces mathematical ideas and processes to their sources, stressing the methods used by the masters of the ancient world. Author Tobias Dantzig portrays the human story behind mathematics, showing how flashes of insight in the minds of certain gifted individuals helped mathematics take enormous forward strides. Dantzig demonstrates how the Greeks organized their precursors' melange of geometric maxims into an elegantly abstract deductive system. He also explains the ways in which some of the famous mathematical brainteasers of antiquity led to the development of whole new branches of mathematics. A book that will both instruct and delight the mathematically minded, this volume is also a treat for readers interested in the history of science. Students and teachers of mathematics will particularly appreciate its unusual combination of human interest and sound scholarship., A study of the problems, principles, and procedures that mathematics has inherited from antiquity, this book both instructs and delights. Written by a specialist in interpreting science for lay readers, it recounts the human story behind mathematics, focusing on the insights of such thinkers as Euclid and Hippocrates. 1955 edition.

LC Classification NumberQA22.D3 2007