{"product_id":"routes-of-learning-ivor-grattan-guinness-9780801892486","title":"Routes of Learning: Highways, Pathways, and Byways in the History of Mathematics","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis seminal collection gathers together many general writings of one of the world's leading historians of mathematics. Organized thematically, these essays ponder the intellectual underpinnings of the field, examine the major topics in the history of mathematics, and recount the bizarre history of pseudomath. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIvor Grattan-Guinness explores how people understand mathematics--the routes of learning they take as they make important discoveries and study mathematical concepts and theories. The essays in the first part of the book discuss the history of mathematics as a field and its central philosophical issues. Those in the next part address the history of mathematics education and its importance to current modes of teaching. In the last section Grattan-Guinness investigates various understudied aspects of math, including numerology, Masonic symbols in classical music, and the links between mathematics and Christianity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection includes several essays that are difficult to find anywhere else. All historians of mathematics and students of the field will want a copy of this remarkable resource on their bookshelves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ivor Grattan-Guinness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801892481\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801892486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/16\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2010","brand":"Ivor Grattan-Guinness","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48748343787775,"sku":"9780801892486","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/routes-of-learning-ivor-grattan-guinness-9780801892486","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}