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Stamping through mathematics / Robin J. Wilson.

Author/creator	Wilson, Robin J.
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	New York : Springer,
Description	vii, 126 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subjects	Mathematics--History. Mathematics on postage stamps.

Contents	Machine generated contents note: Preface -- Early Mathematics -- Egypt -- Greek Geometry -- Plato's Academy -- Euclid and Archimedes -- Greek Astronomy -- Mathematical Recreations -- China -- India -- Mayans and Incas -- Early Islamic Mathematics -- The Middle Islamic Period -- Late Islamic Mathematics -- The Middle Ages -- The Growth of Learning -- Renaissance Art -- Go and Chess -- The Age of Exploration -- Map-Making -- Globes -- Navigational Instruments -- Nicolaus Copernicus -- The New Astronomy -- Calendars -- Calculating Numbers -- Seventeenth-Century France -- Isaac Newton -- Reactions to Newton -- Continental Mathematics -- Halley's Comet -- Longitude -- The New World -- France and the Enlightenment -- The French Revolution -- The Liberation of Geometry -- The Liberation of Algebra -- Statistics -- China and Japan -- Russia -- Eastern Europe -- Mathematical Physics -- The Nature of Light -- Einstein's Theory of Relativity -- Quantum Theory -- The Twentieth Century -- The Birth of Computing -- The Development of Computing -- The International Scene -- Mathematics and Nature -- Twentieth-Century Painting -- The Geometry of Space -- Mathematical Games -- Mathematics Education -- Metrication -- Mathematical Shapes -- List of stamps -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
General note	"All science is either physics or stamp collecting Ernest Rutherford".
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	00052279
ISBN	0387989498 (alk. paper)

Stamping through mathematics / Robin J. Wilson.

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