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100 1 _aMankiewicz, Richard.
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245 1 4 _aThe story of mathematics /
_cRichard Mankiewicz ; [foreword by Ian Stewart].
260 _aPrinceton, N.J. :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2000]
300 _a192 p. :
_bill. (some col.), col. maps ;
_c23 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 188-189) and index.
505 8 _aMachine generated contents note: foreword by Ian stewart -- preface -- year zero -- watchers of the skies -- the pythagorean theorem -- the elements -- ten computational canons -- mathematical sutras -- the house of wisdom -- the liberal arts -- the renaissance perspective -- mathematics for the common wealth -- the marriage of algebra and geometry -- the clockwork universe -- mathematics in motion -- oceans and stars -- the quintic -- new geometries -- dialects of algebra -- fields of action -- catching infinity -- of dice and genes -- war games -- mathematics and modern art -- machine codes -- chaos and compleHity -- acknowledgements a select bibliography -- index.
650 0 _aMathematics
_xHistory.
_927208
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/prin021/00107068.html
856 4 1 _3Table of contents
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/00107068.html
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