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Beyond the Learned Academy
- The Practice of Mathematics, 1600-1850
Engelsk Hardback
Beyond the Learned Academy
- The Practice of Mathematics, 1600-1850
Engelsk Hardback

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The tremendous growth of the mathematical sciences in the early modern world was reflected contemporaneously in an increasingly sophisticated level of practical mathematics in fields such as merchants'' accounts, instrument making, teaching, navigation, and gauging. In many ways, mathematics shaped the knowledge culture of the age, infiltrating workshops, dockyards, and warehouses, before extending through the factories of the Industrial Revolution to the trading companies and banks of the nineteenth century. While theoretical developments in the history of mathematics have been made the topic of numerous scholarly investigations, in many cases based around the work of key figures such as Descartes, Huygens, Leibniz, or Newton, practical mathematics, especially from the seventeenth century onwards, has been largely neglected. The present volume, comprising fifteen essays by leading authorities in the history of mathematics, seeks to fill this gap by exemplifying the richness, diversity, and breadth of mathematical practice from the seventeenth century through to the middle of the nineteenth century.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
512
ISBN-13:
9780198863953
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0198863950
Udg. Dato:
5 jan 2024
Længde:
35mm
Bredde:
242mm
Højde:
163mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato:
5 jan 2024
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