Title: Routes of learning
Subtitle: highways, pathways, and byways in the history of mathematics
First published: 2009
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].
Subjects: Mathematics, History, Mathematics, history
LC classification: QA21 .G696 2009