PublishedOxford University Press, August 2015 |
ISBN9780198702597 |
FormatHardcover, 336 pages |
Dimensions24cm × 16.2cm × 2.5cm |
Leo Corry tells the story behind the idea of number, from the early days of the Pythagoreans, up until the turn of the twentieth century. He presents an overview of how numbers were handled and conceived in classical Greek mathematics, in the mathematics of Islam, in European mathematics of the middle ages and the Renaissance, during the scientific revolution, all the way through to the mathematics of the 18th to the early 20th century.
