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Loading... The Rainbow of Mathematics: A History of the Mathematical Sciences (edition 2000)by Ivor Grattan-GuinnessThis is just awesome! This is exactly what's missing from textbooks. Oh yeah, you get little blurbs about Descartes and Pascal but this is the whole story. This is what makes mathematics interesting. We enforce the study of the corpus without any recognition that our mathematics is an epic human achievement. It gets pretty advanced. What we teach in high school was really understood by the 18th century so maybe half the book is kinda wasted. It really helped me when students would ask me "why" we had to study this stuff if I could wax poetic about who and how it was figured out. A good read if your mathematically inclined. Indespensible if you teach the stuff. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)510.9Natural sciences and mathematics Mathematics General Mathematics Biography And HistoryLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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