An Episodic History of Mathematics: Mathematical Culture Through Problem Solving (Hardback)

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From the back cover: "Contained within are wonderful and engaging stories and anecdotes about Pythagoras and Galois and Cantor and Poincaré, which let readers indulge themselves in whimsy, gossips, and learning. The mathematicians treated here were complex individuals who led colorful and fascinating lives, and did fascinating mathematics. They remain interesting to use as people and as scientists.

"This history of mathematics is also an opportunity to have some fun because the focus in this text is also on the practical—getting involved with the mathematics and solving problems. The book is unabashedly mathematical. While reading An Episodic History of Mathematics, the neophyte will become involved with mathematics by working on the same problems that, for instance, Zeno and Pythagoras and Descartes and Fermat and Riemann worked on."

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