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A Compleat Body of Arithmetick, in Four Books, Viz: Book I. Part 1. Integers. 2. Fractions. Book II. I. Geodæticals. 2. Figurals. Book III. Decimals. 2. Astronomicals. Part 3. Logarithmes. 4. Cossicks. 5. Surds. 6. Algebra. Book IV. I. Ratio's. 2. Proportions Disjunct. 3. Proportions Continued. 4. Æquations, &c. Wherein the Whole Nature of Numbers, with Their Simple and Comparative Elements in All the Parts of Arithmetic, are Plainly Declared, and Fully Handled. Every Part Explain'd by Necessary Rules, Cases, Theorems, Questions, Observations, and Variety of Operations: Illustrated by Sundry Tables, Diagrams, and Very Many Examples. Together with Divers Etymologies, Symboles, Characters, and Abreviations for Artificial Terms, Words, Names, and Denominations: the Whole Digested Into a Succinct, and Orderly Method; and Delivered in a Familiar Style. To Every Part is Added, Excellent Rules of Practice; which Makes it Very Useful to Merchants, and All that Would Understand Accounts, Or the Mathematical and Mechanical Arts and Sciences. With Many Large and Exact Tables of All Sorts of Coins, Weights, Measures, &c. Ancient and Modern, in Most Countries, Reduced to Our Own: the Best that Has Yet Been Extant

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics

Author : Eleanor Robson

Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand

Page : 927 pages

File Size : 41,60 MB

Release : 2009

Category : History

ISBN : 0199213127

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This handbook explores the history of mathematics, addressing what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practise it. 36 self-contained chapters provide a fascinating overview of 5000 years of mathematics and its key cultures for academics in mathematics, historians of science, and general historians.