Book:Morris Kline/Mathematics in Western Culture

Subject Matter

 * History of Mathematics

Contents

 * I. Introduction. True and False Conceptions
 * II. The Rule of Thumb in Mathematics
 * III. The Birth of the Mathematical Spirit
 * IV. The Elements of Euclid
 * V. Placing a Yardstick to the Stars
 * VI. Nature Acquires Reason
 * VII. Interlude
 * VIII. Renewal of the Mathematical Spirit
 * IX. The Harmony of the World
 * X. Painting and Perspective
 * XI. Projective Geometry
 * XII. A Discourse on Method
 * XIII. The Quantitative Approach to Nature
 * XIV. The Deduction of Universal Laws
 * XV. The Calculus
 * XVI. Science and Philosophy
 * XVII. Religion
 * XVIII. Literature and Aesthetics
 * XIX. The Sine of G Major
 * XX. Mastery of the Ether Waves
 * XXI. The Science of Human Nature
 * XXII. The Statistical Approach to the Study of Man
 * XXIII. Prediction and Probability
 * XXIV. The Statistical View of Nature
 * XXV. The Paradoxes of the Infinite
 * XXVI. New Geometries New Worlds
 * XXVII. The Theory of Relativity
 * XXVIII. Method and Art


 * Selected References


 * Index


 * Copyright