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082			_a510.9 _bMER
245			_aA history of mathematics _cUta C Merzbach;
260			_aNew Jersey : _bJohn Wiley and Sons, _c©2011
300			_axx, 668 pages : _b illustrations ; _c24 cm
505			_tTraces -- _tAncient Egypt -- _tMesopotamia -- _tHellenic traditions -- _tEuclid of Alexandria -- _tArchimedes of Syracuse -- _tApollonius of Perge -- _tCrosscurrents -- _tAncient and medieval China -- _tAncient and medieval India -- _tThe Islamic hegemony -- _tThe Latin West -- _tThe European Renaissance -- _tEarly modern problem solvers -- _tAnalysis, synthesis, the infinite, and numbers -- _tBritish techniques and Continental methods -- _tEuler -- _tPre- to postrevolutionary France -- _tGauss -- _tGeometry -- _tAlgebra -- _tAnalysis -- _tTwentieth-century legacies -- Recent trends. _tRecent trends.
520			_a This book teaches about the history of humankind's relationship with numbers, shapes, and patterns. This revised edition features up-to-date coverage of topics such as Fermat's Last Theorem and the Poincare conjecture, in addition to recent advances in areas such as finite group theory and computer-aided proofs. Includes information about the age of Plato and Aristotle, Poincare and Hilbert, the Pythagorean theorem, the golden mean. It explores the history of mathematics and the men and women who created it
650			_a Mathematics -- History.
700			_a Carl B Boyer
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