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How Mathematics Happened.(Brief article)(Book review)

From: Internet Bookwatch  |  Date: 9/1/2007

How Mathematics Happened

Peter S. Rudman

Prometheus Books

59 John Glenn Drive, Amherst, NY 14228-2197

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 ...

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