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Dover Books on Mathematics

6 total works

Cover of The Hindu-Arabic Numerals
l is a historical book was published in 1911. The Hindu-Arabic numer is a positional decimal numeral system developed between the 1st and 5th centuries by Indian mathematicians. The system was adopted by Persian (Al-Khwarizmi's circa 825 book On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals) and Arab mathematicians (Al-Kindi's circa 830 volumes On the Use of the Indian Numerals) by the 9th century. It later spread to the western world by the High Middle Ages.

Cover of A Hist of Japanese Mathematics

Cover of The Geometry of Rene Descartes

Cover of History of Mathematics: Special Topics of Elementary Mathematics v. 2

Cover of A source book in mathematics

Vol 1

Cover of History of Mathematics: General Survey of the History of Elementary Mathematics v. 1