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Author: Leo Corry
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.626kg
ISBN: 9780198702597
ISBN 10: 0198702590
Pages: 324
Publication Date: 27 August 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This fine book gives what its title promises ... a well-written treatment of the subject. Underwood Dudley, MAA Reviews It is a highly recommended and pleasant read, not pedantic, but not casual either ... The book is written with great care ... Adhemar Bultheel, European Mathematical Society A Brief History of Numbers is a meticulously researched and carefully crafted look at how mathematicians have explored the concept of number. Corry's prose is clear and engaging, and the mathematical content is uniformly accessible to his audience. ... I highly recommend A Brief History of Numbers to mathematics teachers who wish to know more about how our current edifice of natural, rational, real, complex, and infinite numbers came to be built. James V. Rauff, Mathematics Teacher
It is a highly recommended and pleasant read, not pedantic, but not casual either ... The book is written with great care ... Adhemar Bultheel, European Mathematical Society
Corry has compiled a readable account of the history of mathematics focusing on numbers, although for most of the period in question, arithmetic and geometry are not easily separable. The required level of sophistication of the reader is not great, it is certainly at the level of a first-year undergraduate, or a keen sixth-former who is studying mathematics. Even as an experienced university mathematician, the reviewer learnt many interesting things, and has some misconceptions remedied, on reading Corry's Brief History. * Robin Chapman, LMS Newsletter * This fine book gives what its title promises ... a well-written treatment of the subject. * Underwood Dudley, MAA Reviews * It is a highly recommended and pleasant read, not pedantic, but not casual either ... The book is written with great care ... * Adhemar Bultheel, European Mathematical Society * A Brief History of Numbers is a meticulously researched and carefully crafted look at how mathematicians have explored the concept of number. Corry's prose is clear and engaging, and the mathematical content is uniformly accessible to his audience. ... I highly recommend A Brief History of Numbers to mathematics teachers who wish to know more about how our current edifice of natural, rational, real, complex, and infinite numbers came to be built. * James V. Rauff, Mathematics Teacher *
Author Information
Leo Corry is a historian of mathematics with a very broad range of interest, that comprise, among other things, the history of modern algebra, the history of number theory, the history of general relativity, and the Euclidean tradition in the middle ages and the early modern period. He has published extensively in all these fields. He teaches at Tel Aviv University, where he is the Bert and Barbara Cohn Professor of History and Philosophy of Science. Since 2013 he is director of the Zvi Yavetz Graduate School of History. He was head of the Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of Science (2003-2009), and editor of the international journal Science in Context (1999-2012).
