Mathematics and Its History by John StillwellEnglish | PDF | 1989 | 381 Pages | ISBN : N/A | 34.32 MB
One of the disappointments experienced by most mathematics students is that they never get a course in mathematics. They get courses in calculus, algebra, topology, and so on, but the division of labor in teaching seems to prevent these different topics from being combined into a whole. In fact, some of the most important and natural questions are stifled because they fall on the wrong side of topic boundary lines.