Publication |
New York, Palgrave, 1987.
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Description |
xxiv, 628p
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Summary/Abstract |
Readings in this book have been selected from a wide variety of sources to show the nature and development of mathematics from earliest times to the twentieth century. Contains not only formal mathematical texts and discussions by mathematicians but also contains poems and extracts from plays and novels which give evidence of beliefs about mathematics at different points in time.
Contains translations which have appeared for the first time in print.
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Standard Number |
9780333427910 Pb.
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