“a History Of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia To Modernity”
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...From Mesopotamia to Modernity offers the reader a fascinating glimpse into the ancient chapters of this phenomenally important discipline. Hodgkin (2005) traces the roots of mathematics from ancient Babylon through Greece, Rome, China, noting the influence of the Christian Church and Islam alike. Hodgkin’s emphasis is on the contributions of the world as a whole to the discipline the western world would eventually claim as its own. Western mathematics, after all, is just one component of the evolution of man’s ability to use numbers to quantify his world and to even predict what is going to happen in that world.
In the seventeenth century in particular, mankind came to the recognition that somehow society must progress beyond randomly observing a phenomenal and then forming conclusions bases solely on those observations. It was in this chapter of world history that we began to employ a systematized method of observation and then tying those observations together...
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