Book:Herbert Westren Turnbull/The Great Mathematicians
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Herbert Westren Turnbull: The Great Mathematicians
Published $\text {1929}$
Subject Matter
- History of Mathematics
Contents
- Preface
- Preface to Third Edition: December, 1940
- Preface to Fourth Edition: May, 1951
- Date List
- Chapter I: Early Beginnings: Thales, Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans
- Chapter II: Eudoxus and the Athenian School
- Chapter III: Alexandria: Euclid, Archimedes and Apollonius
- Chapter IV: The Second Alexandrian School: Pappus and Diophantus
- Chapter V: The Renaissance: Napier and Kepler; The Rise of Analysis
- Chapter VI: Descartes and Pascal: The Early French Geometers and their Contemporaries
- Chapter VII: Isaac Newton
- Chapter VIII: The Bernoullis and Euler
- Chapter IX: Maclaurin and Lagrange
- Chapter X: Gauss and Hamilton: The Nineteenth Century
- Chapter XI: More Recent Developments