Title:
Stamping through mathematics / Robin J. Wilson.
Author:
Wilson, Robin J.
General Notes:
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting Ernest Rutherford"., "All science is either physics or stamp collecting Ernest Rutherford".
Publisher:
Springer,
Publication Place:
New York :
ISBN:
0387989498 (alk. paper)
Subject:
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.
Physical Description:
vii, 126 p. : col. ill. ;
Electronic Location:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy033/00052279.html
Publication Date:
c2001.
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