The Great Mathematicians.
£10.00
Publisher
Barnes and Noble.
Place
New York
Date
1993
Synopsis
Fourth edition reprint
Item Description
8vo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. xi + [i] + 141 pp. Bound in original quarter cream cloth, with blue titles over blue boards, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. Slight sunning of board edges and light spotting of top page edges; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 19 diagrams. A brief biographical history of mathematics from Pythagoras, via Euclid, Archimedes, Descartes, Pascal and Newton to Gauss, followed by a short look at more recent developments. Herbert Westren Turnbull was Professor of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews, 1921-50. A reprint of the fourth edition of 1951; a work first published in 1929.
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