Changing Images in Mathematics
Edition: 1ST edition
Publisher: Not Avail
Published: June 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9789058231956
Subjects: Science/Mathematics; Mathematics; History & Philosophy; History of mathematics; Essays
First sentence: In Auguste Comte's classification of the sciences, mathematics took up a special place at the opening of the encyclopedic series, both as the first term and as the basis of his Cours de philosophie positive [Comte 1830-1842, vol. 1, 2nd lesson].