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Title: The History of Mathematics: An Introduction by David M. Burton ISBN: 0-07-288523-8 Publisher: McGraw Hill College Div Pub. Date: December, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $122.15 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting reading
Comment: I haven't read much on this subject, but I enjoyed this book. The description above says that it's designed for college juniors and seniors, and many of the technical details really will require that level of mathematical maturity. However, there is enough of what the author calls an emphasis on the "bibliographical element" that much of it would be interesting to read through only skimming the technical parts. The author also tries to explain why progress was made at certain times in history but not at others.
The scope is relatively comprehensive: spanning from archeological finds that suggest early numbers systems to early twentieth century work in countability and set theory.
The text itself reminded me quite a bit of my old high school history books -- readable but a little slow-paced at times. More interesting, though, are the problems at the end of every section
-- problems that require the use of ideas and techniques from the time period being described. The author suggests these exercises as a good way to learn both mathematics and history, but they can be safely skipped.
Just a single complaint: the book seems to have a slight slant toward Western mathematics: early Greeks, Europeans from the middle ages, modern Americans recieve the bulk of the attention while there is a single ten-page section entitled "Mathematics in the Near and Far East". While not a fatal flaw (it is of course true that most of modern mathematics has its roots in the West), I would have liked to see a more balanced account.
Rating: 4
Summary: Easy to learn about the history of Math.
Comment: I got a lot of information from this book. It has easy to follow explation about the therom.
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Title: Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics by William Dunham ISBN: 014014739X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Roads to Geometry, Third Edition by Edward C. Wallace, Stephen F. West, Edward Wallace, Stephen West ISBN: 0130413968 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 17 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $88.00 |
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Title: Classics of Mathematics by Ronald Calinger ISBN: 002318342X Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 26 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $45.33 |
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Title: Elementary Number Theory by David M. Burton ISBN: 0072325690 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Pub. Date: 19 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $121.80 |
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Title: The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements, Books 1 and 2 by Thomas L. Heath, Euclid ISBN: 0486600882 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1956 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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