How Mathematics Happened
Peter S. Rudman
Prometheus Books
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9781591024774, $26.00 www.prometheusbooks.com 1-800-421-0351
Written by Peter S. Rudman (Professor Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology), How Mathematics Happened is explores the history and prehistory of human mathematical discovery. From the different ways Egyptians and Babylonians expressed fractions so that they would almost never be ...