Robert Goulding: 1 book
Defending Hypatia
Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical History
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Why should mathematics, the purest of sciences, have a history? Medieval mathematicians took little interest in the history of their discipline. Yet in the Renaissance the history of mathematics flourished. This book explores how Renaissance scholars recovered and reconstructed the origins of mathematics...
