Routes of learning
Subtitle: highways, pathways, and byways in the history of mathematics
By: Ivor Grattan-Guinness.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780801892479; 9780801892486
Subjects: Mathematics -- History
Description: These essays ponder the intellectual underpinnings of the field, examine the major topics in the history of mathematics, and recount the bizarre history of pseudomath. The author explores how people understand mathematics, the routes of learning they take as they make important discoveries and study mathematical concepts and theories.--[book cover].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.