Oxford Figures: Eight Centuries of the Mathematical Sciences
Editat de John Fauvel, Raymond Flood, Robin Wilsonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 sep 2013
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780199681976
ISBN-10: 019968197X
Pagini: 418
Ilustrații: 200 b/w line drawings, 80 b/w halftones
Dimensiuni: 195 x 249 x 29 mm
Greutate: 1.09 kg
Ediția:2
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 019968197X
Pagini: 418
Ilustrații: 200 b/w line drawings, 80 b/w halftones
Dimensiuni: 195 x 249 x 29 mm
Greutate: 1.09 kg
Ediția:2
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Recenzii
As you would expect from the editors and publishers, this is a splendid book with excellent illustrations and a text which bubbles with fascinating anecdotes and a real sense of the richness of Oxfordâs mathematical tradition.
Notă biografică
John Fauvel was a Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at the Open University and a former President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics. A major figure in the international history of mathematics, he was particularly involved with relationships between the history and pedagogy of mathematics. He died in 2001.Raymond Flood is the Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London. He is Emeritus Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford, having formerly been Vice-President of the College. He was University Lecturer in Computing Studies and Mathematics at the Department for Continuing Education, Oxford University, and was President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics.Robin Wilson is an Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University, Emeritus Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, and a former Fellow of Keble College, Oxford. He is currently President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics. He is involved with the popularization and communication of mathematics and its history, and has been awarded prizes by the Mathematical Association of America for his 'outstanding expository writing'.