How it All Began: A Thematic History of Mathematics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780761824107)

Vendor: Dattatray B. Wagh
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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How it All Began: A Thematic History of Mathematics

$115.00

How it All Began: A Thematic History of Mathematics

$115.00
Format: Hardcover
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Intended for undergraduate mathematics students and teachers, How it All Began provides an introduction to the history of various branches of mathematics, the lives of the mathematicians, and the challenges they faced. This new work explores the great Greek legacy, Indian arithmetic, Integral Calculus, the Analytic Geometry of Rene Descartes, Differential Calculus, the Non-Commutative Algebra of Hamilton, the arithmetization of analysis, and the beginnings of Algebra.

Author: Dattatray B. Wagh
ISBN-10: 0761824103
ISBN-13: 9780761824107
Publisher: University Press of America
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2005
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2006 pg. 2029
By Dattatray B. Wagh
By Dattatray B. Wagh
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Dattatray B. Wagh is a well-known educator and author from the Western region of India. He headed the Mathematics departments at Ruia College and Wilson College in Bombay; served as the Principal of the first college in Goa; and later served as the Director for Bombay UniversityOs postgraduate instruction and research center in Goa, which laid the foundations for the present Goa University. Professor Wagh has devoted his professional and personal life to education and has helped establish and manage numerous schools and colleges in rural and urban areas of India. He was a member of various academic committees of Bombay University including the Senate, the highest academic body of the University. He is the author of five other books including three popular texts on college mathematics and a book on Ramanujan.

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