A history of mathematics
This book teaches about the history of humankind's relationship with numbers, shapes, and patterns. This revised edition features up-to-date coverage of topics such as Fermat's Last Theorem and the Poincare conjecture, in addition to recent advances in areas such as finite group theory and...
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Hoboken, NJ
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
2011
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
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