Cracking mathematics: you, this book and 4,000 years of theories

This book describes the history of mathematics and documents the subject's development from the ancient Babylonian calculations to the proof of modularity theorem. It also provides stories such as the death of Evariste Galois and Newton's conflict with Leibniz. 

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Subject(s)Mathematics
Author(s)Colin Beveridge
Published2016
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Shelf referenceMA3 BEV
ISN/ISBN9781844038626
Direct URLhttps://www.stem.org.uk/xbpxs

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