A short account of the history of mathematics

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Name: A short account of the history of mathematics
ISBN: 9780486206301

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Note: "An unabridged and unaltered republication of the author's last revision--the fourth edition which appeared in 1908."

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Contents: Egyptian and Phoenician Mathematics -- The Ionia and Pythagorean Schools -- The Schools of Athens and Cyzicus -- The First Alexandrian School -- The Second Alexandrian School -- The Byzantine School -- Systems of Numeration and Primitive Arithmetic -- The Rise of Learning in Western Europe -- The Mathematics of the Arabs -- Introduction of Arabian Works into Europe -- The Development of Arithmetic -- The Mathematics of the Renaissance -- The Close of the Renaissance -- The history of modern mathematics -- History of Mathematics from descartes to Huygens -- The life and works of Newton -- Leibnitz and the Mathematicians of the First half of the Eighteenth Century (Bernoulli, Brook Taylor, Halley, D'Alembert, MacLaurin) -- Lagrange, Laplace, and their contemporaries -- Mathematics of the Nineteenth Century (Abel, Jacobi, Riemann, Weierstrass, Cauchy, W. Hamilton, Grassmann, Boole, Galois, Cayley, Sylvester, Lie, Hermite)

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