How Mathematics Happened


The First 50,000 Years

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By Peter S. Rudman
Imprint: PROMETHEUS
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HARDBACK
Dimensions:
232 x 162 mm
Weight:
690 g
Pages:
316

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Peter S. Rudman (Haifa, Israel) is professor (ret.) of solid-state physics at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and the author of more than 100 articles in physics.

Introduction; The Birth of Arithmetic; Pebble Counting Evolves into Written Numbers; Mathematics in the Valley of the Nile; Mathematics by the Waters of Babylon; Mathematics Attains Maturity: Rigorous Proof; We Learn History to Be Able to Repeat It; Index.

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