Geometrical landscapes : the voyages of discovery and the transformation of mathematical practice /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alexander, Amir
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2002]
Series:Writing science ; 1.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: the origins of the exploration narrative
  • Breaking alien coastlines
  • Mathematical empires
  • Seeing the truth: Hariot and the structure of matter
  • "The club of Hercules": Hariot's mathematical atomism
  • Navigating mathematical oceans.