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Description for Quite Right
Hardcover. This book explains how mathematical ideas evolved in response to the growing levels of organization in human societies, from prehistoric times to the present day. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Mathematics did not spring spontaneously into life, with rules set in stone for all time. Its story is closely linked with the problems of measurement and money that have often driven its progress. Quite Right explains how mathematical ideas have gradually emerged since prehistoric times, so that they pervade almost every aspect of life in the twenty-first century. Many histories of mathematics focus on the activities of those for whom mathematics itself was the motivation. Professor Biggs adopts a wider viewpoint. Making use of new discoveries of artefacts and documents, he explains the part that mathematics has played in ... Read more
Mathematics did not spring spontaneously into life, with rules set in stone for all time. Its story is closely linked with the problems of measurement and money that have often driven its progress. Quite Right explains how mathematical ideas have gradually emerged since prehistoric times, so that they pervade almost every aspect of life in the twenty-first century. Many histories of mathematics focus on the activities of those for whom mathematics itself was the motivation. Professor Biggs adopts a wider viewpoint. Making use of new discoveries of artefacts and documents, he explains the part that mathematics has played in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
453g
Number of Pages
186
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198753353
SKU
V9780198753353
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Ref
99-31
About Norman Biggs
Norman Biggs has been a university lecturer for over 50 years. After graduating from the University of Cambridge he became an Assistant Lecturer at Southampton University in 1963, and subsequently taught at Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics. Since 2006 he has been Emeritus Professor at the LSE and has continued to give lectures on information theory and ... Read more
Reviews for Quite Right
Recommended.
CHOICE
The author writes with a clear and engaging style, enriched here and there with witty comments.
Peter Giblin, The Mathematical Gazette
This is an excellent popular history of mathematics.
Charles Ashbacher, Mathematical Association of America Reviews
It is the different view on the history of mathematical ideas as compared to other books ... Read more
CHOICE
The author writes with a clear and engaging style, enriched here and there with witty comments.
Peter Giblin, The Mathematical Gazette
This is an excellent popular history of mathematics.
Charles Ashbacher, Mathematical Association of America Reviews
It is the different view on the history of mathematical ideas as compared to other books ... Read more