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The Norton History of the Mathematical Sciences: The Rainbow of Mathematics (Norton...
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by Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Sales Rank: 1160174
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$35.00
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Hardcover: 817 pages
Publisher: Mathematical Association of America MAA December 1998
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393046508
ISBN-13: 978-0393046502
Product Dimensions:
9 x 6 x 1.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
Product Review
From zero to infinity, mathematics has always been more about thoughts than thinkers. Professor Ivor Grattan-Guinness has chosen to focus on concepts, rather than the geniuses who first articulated them, in The Norton History of the Mathematical Sciences, and this new retelling brings a freshness to what had formerly seemed a dry subject. He certainly hasn't neglected great mathematicians--Pythagoras and Ramanujan each get their due--but his real heroes are number theory, algebra, and their cousins.
Grattan-Guinness isn't afraid of his subject, and he expects the same of his readers; in fact, he knits equations into his narrative rather than setting them apart like most other math books. Much of the History covers the explosive developments of the 19th century, when mathematics matured and diversified beyond Euclid's wildest dreams, though of course there is also extensive material on mathematics from other times, from the ancient world to the present. Scholarly and well-organized, the book is intended more for research and exploration than straight-through reading, but the author's lucid prose occasionally makes it difficult to stop reading. Mathematics underlies all of modern science; read The Norton History of the Mathematical Sciences to get a grasp on the deepest infrastructure of our times. --Rob Lightner
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Grattan-Guinness has achieved a synthesis here of remarkable historical and mathematical scope and sensitivity. -- Professor Karen Hunger Parshall, editor of Historia Mathematica
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