Geometrical landscapes : the voyages of discovery and the transformation of mathematical practice /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
[2002]
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| Series: | Writing science ;
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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.