Book:B.L. van der Waerden/Science Awakening
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B.L. van der Waerden: Science Awakening
Published $\text {1954}$
Translation into English of Ontwakende Wetenschap from 1950.
Contents
- 1. The Egyptians
- 2. Number Systems, Digits and the Art of Computing
- 3. Babylonian Mathematics
- 4. The Age of Thales and Pythagoras
- 5. The Golden Age
- 6. The Century of Plato
- 7. The Alexandrian Era (330—200 B.C.)
- 8. The Decay of Greek Mathematics