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edited by John Fauvel and Jeremy Gray

Macmillan Education in association with the Open University

,1987

xxiv, 628 p. ill. 26 cm.

Includes index.

Bibliography: pxxiv.

Fauvel, John.,Gray, Jeremy,Open University.

QA

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.H5

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Origins -- Mathematics in classical Greece -- Euclid's elements -- Archimedes and Apollonius -- Mathematical traditions in the Hellenistic Age -- Islamic mathematics -- Mathematics in mediaeval Europe -- Sixteenth-century European mathematics -- Mathematical sciences in Tudor and Stuart England -- Mathematics and the scientific revolution -- Isaac Newton -- Leibniz and his followers -- Euler and his contempories -- Gauss, and the origins of structural algebra -- Non-Euclidean geometry -- Projective geometry in the nineteenth century -- The mechanization of calculation.