Mathematics in Western culture / / Morris Kline
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| Autore: |
Kline Morris <1908-1992, >
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| Titolo: |
Mathematics in Western culture / / Morris Kline
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 1953 |
| ©1953 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (513 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 510.9 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mathematics - History |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Table of Contents; I: Introduction. True and False Conceptions; II: The Rule of Thumb in Mathematics; III: The Birth of the Mathematical Spirit; IV: The Elements of Euclid; V: Placing a Yardstick to the Stars; VI: Nature Acquires Reason; VII: Interlude; VIII: Renewal of the Mathematical Spirit; IX: The Harmony of the World; X: Painting and Perspective; XI: Science Born of Art: Projective Geometry; XII: A Discourse on Method; XIII: The Quantitative Approach to Nature; XIV: The Deduction of Universal Laws; XV: Grasping the Fleeting Instant: The Calculus |
| XVI: The Newtonian Influence: Science and Philosophy XVII: The Newtonian Influence: Religion; XVIII: The Newtonian Influence: Literature and Aesthetics; XIX: The Sine of G Major; XX: Mastery of the Ether Waves; XXI: The Science of Human Nature; XXII: The Mathematical Theory of Ignorance: The Statistical Approach to the Study of Man; XXIII: Prediction and Probability; XXIV: Our Disorderly Universe: The Statistical View of Nature; XXV: The Paradoxes of the Infinite; XXVI: New Geometries, New Worlds; XXVII: The Theory of Relativity; XXVIII: Mathematics: Method and Art; SELECTED REFERENCES; INDEX | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book gives a remarkably fine account of the influences mathematics has exerted on the development of philosophy, the physical sciences, religion, and the arts in Western life. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Mathematics in western culture |
| ISBN: | 1-280-76213-6 |
| 9786610762132 | |
| 0-19-534545-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910784867603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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