I love math a lot. Naturally, because I also like history this book was extremely enjoyable.
Carl Boyer writes in such a way that he makes the history of math accessible and enjoyable to the laymen and the expert. Boyer traces the history of the development of calculus from is conceptual roots in Ancient Greek math, in through the debates over the validity of the infinite in the middle ages, to the debate and differences because Newtonian and Leibnizian calculus and their aftermaths.
Although the first half of the book includes such ideas like "but it wasn't calculus yet;" These chapters were instrumental to understanding the climate in which Newton and Leibniz were writing and what elements were missing from their predecessors conceptions of an infinite mathematics.
This was a wonderfully enjoyable books. I give it a 10 out of 10. I would definitely reread this book again and often, at least mentally, refer to it and all that it has taught me.
Carl Boyer writes in such a way that he makes the history of math accessible and enjoyable to the laymen and the expert. Boyer traces the history of the development of calculus from is conceptual roots in Ancient Greek math, in through the debates over the validity of the infinite in the middle ages, to the debate and differences because Newtonian and Leibnizian calculus and their aftermaths.
Although the first half of the book includes such ideas like "but it wasn't calculus yet;" These chapters were instrumental to understanding the climate in which Newton and Leibniz were writing and what elements were missing from their predecessors conceptions of an infinite mathematics.
This was a wonderfully enjoyable books. I give it a 10 out of 10. I would definitely reread this book again and often, at least mentally, refer to it and all that it has taught me.
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