Mathematics and Its History
|von J. Stillwell|
Synopsis A collection of critical historical essays dealing with a large variety of mathematical disciplines and issues, this second edition includes new chapters on Chinese and Indian number theory, on hypercomplex numbers and on algebraic number theory. Many more exercises have been added, as well as commentary to the exercises explaining how they relate to the preceding section, and how they foreshadow later topics. The index has been given added structure to make searching easier, the references have been redone, and hundreds of minor improvements have been made throughout the text.