Book:Morris Kline/Mathematics in Western Culture

Morris Kline: Mathematics in Western Culture

Published $\text {1953}$, Oxford University Press

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

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