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Published
Dover, November 1987
ISBN
9780486602554
Format
Softcover, 256 pages
Dimensions
21.5cm × 13.8cm × 1.3cm

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This compact, well-written history covers major mathematical ideas and techniques from the ancient Near East to 20th-century computer theory, surveying the works of Archimedes, Pascal, Gauss, Hilbert, and many others. "The author's ability as a first-class historian as well as an able mathematician has enabled him to produce a work which is unquestionably one of the best." - Nature.

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