[Carl_B._Boyer,_Uta_C._Merzbach]_A_History_of_Mathematics, 3rd Ed (BookFi.org).pdf

History

Mathematics

THIRD EDITION

Uta C. Merzbach and Carl B. Boyer

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Published simultaneously in Canada

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Boyer, Carl B. (Carl Benjamin), 1906 1976.

A history of mathematics / Carl B. Boyer and Uta Merzbach.

3rd ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978 0 470 52548 7 (pbk.); ISBN 978 0 470 63039 6 (ebk.);

ISBN 978 0 470 63054 9 (ebk.); ISBN 978 0 470 630563 (ebk.)

1. Mathematics History.

I. Merzbach, Uta C., 1933

II. Title.

QA21.B767

2010

510.9

dc22

2010003424

Printed in the United States of America

10987654321

In memory of Carl B. Boyer

(1906

1976)

U.C.M.

To the memory of my parents,

Howard Franklin Boyer and

Rebecca Catherine (Eisenhart) Boyer

C.B.B.

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