Author | Wilson, Robin J. author |
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Title | Stamping Through Mathematics [electronic resource] / by Robin J. Wilson |
Imprint | New York, NY : Springer New York, 2001 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b97482 |
Descript | VIII, 126 p. online resource |
Early Mathematics -- Egypt -- Greek Geometry -- Platoโs Academy -- Euclid and Archimedes -- Greek Astronomy -- Mathematical Recreations -- China -- India -- Mayans and Incas -- Early Islamic Mathematics -- The Middle Islamic Period -- Late Islamic Mathematics -- The Middle Ages -- The Growth of Learning -- Renaissance Art -- Go and Chess -- The Age of Exploration -- Map-Making -- Globes -- Navigational Instruments -- Nicolaus Copernicus -- The New Astronomy -- Calendars -- Calculating Numbers -- Seventeenth-Century France -- Isaac Newton -- Reactions to Newton -- Continental Mathematics -- Halleyโs Comet -- Longitude -- The New World -- France and the Enlightenment -- The French Revolution -- The Liberation of Geometry -- The Liberation of Algebra -- Statistics -- China and Japan -- Russia -- Eastern Europe -- Mathematical Physics -- The Nature of Light -- Einsteinโs Theory of Relativity -- Quantum Theory -- The Twentieth Century -- The Birth of Computing -- The Development of Computing -- The International Scene -- Mathematics and Nature -- Twentieth-Century Painting -- The Geometry of Space -- Mathematical Games -- Mathematics Education -- Metrication -- Mathematical Shapes