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George Phillips' book consists of five short courses to be given at our ideal university. As the title is intended to suggest, the topics are treated with due respect for their history and all have their roots in the works of Gauss or earlier mathematicians. The level chosen is that of a first or second year student and the exposition uses the relaxed "explanation, theorem, proof"style of the best colloquium talks."
London Mathematical Society Newsletter, October 2001
"In five chapters (From Archimedes to Gauss, Logarithms, Interpolation, Continued fractions, More number theory), the author shows that many interesting and important results in mahtematics have been discovered by ordinary people and not onl by great geniuses. Each chapter includes the history of its topic with an interpretation of the mathematical problems. The book shows how and why some results in mathematics have been discovered or obtained, by following the steps of well-known mathematicians who discovered them. It is a useful source of mathematical material for teachers, undergraduate students, students and the vast numbers of amateurs who love mathematics."
European Mathematical Society Newsletter, Issue 41, September 2001
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Book Title: Two Millennia of Mathematics
Book Subtitle: From Archimedes to Gauss
Authors: George M. Phillips
Series Title: CMS Books in Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1180-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-95022-8Published: 27 September 2000
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-7035-5Published: 03 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-1180-8Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1613-5237
Series E-ISSN: 2197-4152
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 223
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences