num_pages: 176
description: Introducing Mathematics traces the story of mathematics from the ancient world to modern times, describing the great discoveries and providing an accessible introduction to such topics as number-systems, geometry and algebra, calculus, the theory of the infinite, statistical reasoning and chaos theory.
language: English
title: Introducing Mathematics
titlecomplete: Introducing Mathematics
characters: Denis Diderot, Omar Khayyám, George G. Joseph, Sophie Germain, Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Brahmagupta, Alan Turing, Samaw'al ibn 'Adiya, Euclid, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Archimedes (mathematician), Pierre de Fermat, Bertrand Russell, Jamshīd al-Kāshī, Zu Chongzhi, Zu Gengzhi, Al-Battani, Zhu Shijie, Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, Évariste Galois, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Benoit Mandelbrot, G.H. Hardy, Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Jia Xian, Qin Jiushao, Ibn Yunus, Bhāskara II, Georg Cantor, Reuben Hersh, Achilles, Zeno of Elea, Diophantus, Blaise Pascal, George Berkeley, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Nicolaus Copernicus, Mahāvīra, Thābit ibn Qurra, Yang Hui, Al-Karaji, Pythagoras, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, János Bolyai, Liu Hui, Thomas Kuhn, Kurt Gödel, Leonhard Euler, Philip J. Davis, Andrew Wiles, René Descartes, Abū al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Qalaṣādī, Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann
genres: Graphic Novels Comics, History, Graphic Novels, Science, Comics, Mathematics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 398
series: Introducing Graphic Guides
publisher: Icon,Totem Books