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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.
This was a wonderfully enjoyable books.
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.
This was a wonderfully enjoyable books.
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