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|a A brief history of mathematical thought /
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|a Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Beginnings -- From Greece to Rome -- Ratio and proportion -- The rise of algebra -- Mechanics and the calculus -- Leonhard Euler and the bridges of Königsberg -- Euclid's fifth and the reinvention of geometry -- Working with the infinite -- The structures of logical form -- Alan Turing and the concept of computation -- Kurt Gödel and the power of polynomials -- Modelling the world -- Lived experience and the nature of facts -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
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|a "For many people, anxiety about math is so entrenched, and grade school memories so haunting, that these disclaimers - though misleading - are necessary to avoid intimidating potential buyers. In A Brief History of Mathematical Thought, Luke Heaton provides a compulsively readable history that situates mathematics within the human experience and, in the process, makes it more accessible. Mastering math begins with understanding its history. Heaton's book therefore offers a lively guide into and through the world of numbers and equations-one in which patterns and arguments are traced through logic in the language of concrete experience. Heaton reveals how Greek and Roman mathematicians like Pythagoras, Euclid, and Archimedes helped shaped the early logic of mathematics; how the Fibonacci sequence, the rise of algebra, and the invention of calculus are connected; how clocks, coordinates, and logical padlocks work mathematically; and how, in the twentieth century, Alan Turing's revolutionary work on the concept of computation laid the groundwork for the modern world."--
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