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100 1 _aStedall, Jacqueline A.
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245 1 4 _aThe history of mathematics :
_ba very short introduction /
_cJacqueline Stedall.
260 _aOxford ;
_aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2012.
300 _axvii, 123 p. ;
_c18 cm.
490 1 _aVery short introductions ;
_v305
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (113-116) and index.
505 0 _a1. Mathematics: myth and history; 2. What is mathematics and who is a mathematician?; 3. How are mathematical ideas disseminated?; 4. Learning mathematics; 5. Mathematical livelihoods; 6. Getting inside mathematics; 7. The evolving historiography of mathematics.
520 _aIn this Very Short Introduction, Jacqueline Stedall explores the rich historical and cultural diversity of mathematical endeavour from the distant past to the present day, using illustrative case studies drawn from a range of times and places; including early imperial China, the medieval Islamic world, and nineteenth-century Britain--
650 0 _aMathematics
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