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The wonderful world of mathematics / Lancelot Hogben ; art by Andre, Charles Keeping, Kenneth Symonds ; maps by Marjorie Saynor.

By: Hogben, Lancelot Thomas, 1895-1975 [author.]Contributor(s): Andre [illustrator.] | Keeping, Charles [illustrator.] | Symonds, Kenneth [illustrator.] | Saynor, Marjorie [cartographer.]Material type: Text

TextDescription: 69 pages : illustrations ; 33 cmSubject(s): Mathematics -- History -- Juvenile literature | Civilization -- History -- Juvenile literature | Mathematics -- History | Civilization -- History | Civilization | Mathematics | Matematica (Historia) | Matematik -- historia -- barn-och ungdomslitteraturGenre/Form: History. | Juvenile works. | Printed books -- 20th century -- United States -- New York -- Garden City -- Specimens.Additional physical formats: Online version:: Wonderful world of mathematics.DDC classification: 510 LOC classification: QA21 | .H73 1955J510

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The beginning: Time and tally -- Ancient Egypt: Taxes and triangles -- Babylon and Assyria: Square and circle -- Phoenician voyages: Stars and steering -- Greece and Rome: Proof and progress -- The Moslem Empire: Numbers and nothing -- Western Europe: Graphs and gravity -- The industrial world: Power and precision.

Summary: Traces the history of mathematics as it developed and progressed with man's civilization.

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Item type	Current location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Reference	GKVK Library	510 HOG (Browse shelf)	Not for loan		24657

First edition published in 1955 under title: Man must measure: the wonderful world of mathematics.

Traces the history of mathematics as it developed and progressed with man's civilization.

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