A Short Account of the History of Mathematics - Couverture rigide

Ball, W. W. Rouse

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1402711263 ISBN 13 : 9781402711268

Editeur : Main Street Pr, 2003

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Book by Ball W W Rouse

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PREFACE
Although for nearly a century the greatest mathematical classics of India have been known to western scholars, and several of the more important works of the Arabs for even longer, the mathematics of China and Japan has been closed to all European and American students until very recently. Even now we have not a single translation of a Chinese treatise upon the subject, and it is only within the last dozen years that the contributions of the native Japanese school have become known in the West even by name. At the second International Congress of Mathematicians, held at Paris in 1900, Professor Fujisawa of the Imperial University of Tokio gave a brief address upon Mathematics of the old Japanese School, and this may be taken as the first contribution to the history of mathematics made by a native of that country in a European language. The next effort of this kind showed itself in occasional articles by Baron Kikuchi, as in the Niemv Arckief voor Wiskuude, some of which were b

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A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by W. W. Rouse Ball

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• Éditeur: Main Street Pr
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1402711263
• ISBN 13: 9781402711268
• Reliure: Relié
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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