Science explains how the world works, and how life exists. Scientific discoveries have made our lives healthier and longer than ever before. Science give us understanding about where we come from, how we grow in our mother’s womb, how our body...
From one of the foremost interpreters for lay readers of the history and meaning of mathematics: a stimulating account of the origins of mathematical thought and the development of numerical theory. It probes the work of Pythagoras, Galileo,...
"This important book . . . presents a broad account of the part played by mathematics in the evolution of civilization, describing clearly the main principles, methods, and theories of mathematics that have survived from about 4000 BC to 1940."―...