The History of MathematicsThe Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, 15 de jul. 2012 - 208 pàgines Mathematics has come a long way throughout its history. Readers are offered a peek into a world that is too often unseen; that being the painstaking development of mathematical principals that serve as the blueprint of our universe. Readers will learn about how mathematics plays an integral role in our understanding of concepts as vast as black holes to those as ordinary today as the common GPS device. |
Continguts
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Chapter 2 Numbers Put to Work | 34 |
Chapter 3 The Shape of Things | 60 |
Chapter 4 In the Round | 92 |
Chapter 5 The Magic Formula | 120 |
Chapter 6 Grasping the Infinite | 144 |
Chapter 7 Numbers at Work and Play | 166 |
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