Mathematics
by Jan Gullberg · first published 1997
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Gullberg attempts to "bring together the history of mathematics with a broad treatment of its foundations," including numbers and their symbols, the four fundamental rules of arithmetic, calculus, matrices and determinants, differential equations, algebra, the theory of functions, geometry, trigonometry, hyperbolic functions, analytic geometry, number theory, symbolic logic, set theory, Boolean algebra, transfinite numbers, topology, fractals, vector analysis, and probability theory.
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