The Rainbow of Mathematics
Subtitle: A History of the Mathematical Sciences
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 832
ISBN-13: 9780393320305
First sentence: In the issue of the British journal Nature for 27 July 1905, the statistician Karl Pearson posed the following problem: A man starts from a point O and walks l yards in a straight line; he then turns though any angle whatever and walks another l yards in a second straight line.