For a junior or senior level course in the history of mathematics for math and math education majors.
Blending relevant mathematics and history, this text immerses the student in the full, rich detail of mathematics. Students not only get a description of mathematics but they also learn how mathematics was actually practiced throughout the millennia by past civilizations and great mathematicians alike. As a result, students gain a better understanding of why mathematics developed the way it did.
- ISBN10 0130190748
- ISBN13 9780130190741
- Publish Date 14 January 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pearson
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 832
- Language English