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By John Fauvel; Jeremy Gray; Open University (eds.)
Origins -- arithmetic in classical Greece -- Euclid's parts -- Archimedes and Apollonius -- Mathematical traditions within the Hellenistic Age -- Islamic arithmetic -- arithmetic in mediaeval Europe -- Sixteenth-century ecu arithmetic -- Mathematical sciences in Tudor and Stuart England -- arithmetic and the clinical revolution -- Descartes, Fermat and their contemporaries -- Isaac Newton -- Leibniz and his fans -- Euler and his contemporaries -- Gauss, and the origins of structural algebra -- Non-Euclidean geometry -- Projective geometry within the 19th century -- The rigorization of the calculus -- The mechanization of calculation
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