Changing Images in Mathematics
Subtitle: From the French Revolution to the New Millennium
Series: Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 8, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780415271189
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].