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Math & mathematicians, the history of math discoveries around the world, Leonard C. Bruno ; Lawrence W. Baker, editor

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Math & mathematicians, the history of math discoveries around the world, Leonard C. Bruno ; Lawrence W. Baker, editor

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references, chronologies, timeline, and cumulative indexes

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collective biography

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Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Math & mathematicians

Nature of contents

encyclopediasbibliography

Responsibility statement

Leonard C. Bruno ; Lawrence W. Baker, editor

Sub title

the history of math discoveries around the world

Table Of Contents

v. 3. A-Z: Ahmes -- (Sidebar: Arabs preserve Greek mathematics) -- Ruth Aaronson Bari -- Isaac Barrow -- János Bolyai -- Henry Briggs -- William Brouncker -- Joost Bürgi -- Arthur Cayley -- Sun-Yung Alice Chang -- Arthur Cayley -- Elbert F. Cox -- Richard Dedekind -- J.Presper Eckert -- (Sidebar:What led to Eckert-Mauchly meeting) -- Agner K. Erlang (Sidebar:Erma Schneider Hoover) -- Mary Gray -- Jacques-Salomon Hadamard -- Thomas Harriot (Harriot goes to the New World) -- Hippocrates of Chios -- Carl Jacobi -- Thomas E. Kurts -- Johann Lambert -- Ada Lovelace -- Gaspard Monge (Sidebar: The metric system and the French Revolution) -- Nicole d'Oresme (Sidebar: Sister Mary Celine Fasenmyer) -- Blaise Pascal -- Claudius Ptolemy -- Julia Bowman Robinson -- Jakob Steiner -- Thermometer Scale Originators (Sidebar:Fahrenheit,Celsius,and Kelvin) -- Francois Viète -- J.Ernest Wilkins Jr. -- v. 4. A-Z: Howard Aiken -- (Sidebar: Herman Hollerith's Punched Cards) -- Apollonius of Perga -- John Backus -- Nina Bari -- Agnes Sime Baxter -- (Sidebar: John Charles Fields) -- Bhāskara II -- Mary Everest Boole -- Émile Borel -- Nicolas Chuquet -- (Sidebar: Luca Pacioli) -- Richard Courant -- Gabriel Cramer -- Zacharias Dase -- Girard Desargues --(Sidebar: Frank Lloyd Wright) -- M. C. Escher -- (Sidebar: Leone Alberti) -- Etta Zuber Falconer -- Edmond Halley --(Sidebar: Fredrich Wilhelm Bessel) -- Stephen Hawking -- Louise Hay -- Hero of Alexandria -- William Jones -- (Sidebar: An Inexact Slice of Pi) -- Omar Khayyám -- (Sidebar: Regiomantanus) -- Colin Maclaurin -- (Sidebar: The Calculus Dispute) -- Nicolaus Mercator -- John Nash -- William Ougtred -- John Allen Paulos -- Robert Recorde -- Bertrand Russell -- Charlotte Angas Scott -- Karl Weierstass

Target audience

juvenile

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History of math discoveries around the world

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