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A Brief history of numbers /

Corry, Leo, (1956-)

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Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A Brief history of numbers // Leo Corry.
Author:	Corry, Leo,
Published:	Oxford, United Kingdom ;Oxford University Press, : 2015.,
Description:	xiii, 309 p. :ill. ;24 cm.
Subject:	Number theory - History. -
ISBN:	9780198702597

A Brief history of numbers /
Corry, Leo,1956-

A Brief history of numbers /Leo Corry. - 1st ed. - Oxford, United Kingdom ;Oxford University Press,2015. - xiii, 309 p. :ill. ;24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-301) and indexes.

The world around us is saturated with numbers. They are a fundamental pillar of our modern society, and accepted and used with hardly a second thought. But how did this state of affairs come to be? In this book, 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. --

ISBN: 9780198702597GBP25.00

LCCN: 2015930555Subjects--Topical Terms:

550203
Number theory
--History.

LC Class. No.: QA241 / .C6945 2015

Dewey Class. No.: 512.7

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