About this title: "For Ivor Grattan-Guinness . . . the story of how numbers were invented and harnessed is a passionate, physical saga."--"The New Yorker." The author charts the growth of mathematics through the centuries and describes the evolution of arithmetic and geometry, trigonometry, and other disciplines.
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, New York
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780393320305ISBN:0393320308
Description: Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A couple of pages with highlighting, otherwise clean, good binding, minor wear to the cover. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780393320305ISBN:0393320308
Description: ISBN 0-393-32030-8. Trade Paperback. Reprint edition. First Printing thus. Near Fine condition. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co
Date Published: 2000-05
ISBN-13:9780393320305ISBN:0393320308
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Edition: First Thus
Binding: Quality Paperback
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780393320305ISBN:0393320308
Description: Near Fine (Book Condition) A very nice copy. Slight wave to book. Text clean, binding strong. [Montreal Books rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair. ] read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780393320305ISBN:0393320308
Description: Very Good; Shiny, thick softcover, very light wear. 0393320308. 832 pages; Beginning with the Babylonian and Egyptian mathematicians of antiquity, Ivor Grattan-Guinness "succeeds masterfully in viewing the history of mathematics from a new perspective. " (Professor Karen Hunger Parshall, editor of Historia Mathematica). He charts the growth of mathematics through its refinement by ancient Greeks and then medieval Arabs, to its systematic development by Europeans from the Middle Ages to the ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W W NORTON & CO INC
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780393320305ISBN:0393320308
Description: "For Ivor Grattan-Guinness...the story of how numbers were invented and harnessed is a passionate, physical saga. "--"The New Yorker. " The author charts the growth of mathematics through the centuries and describes the evolution of arithmetic and... read more
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