Exciting, hands-on approach to understanding fundamental underpinnings of modern arithmetic, algebra, geometry and number systems, by examining their origins in early Egyptian, Babylonian and Greek sources. Students can do division like the ancient Egyptians, solve quadratic equations like the Babylonians, and more.
| ISBN: | 9780486255637 |
| Publication date: | 28th March 2003 |
| Author: | Lucas N H Bunt, Phillip S Jones, Jack D Bedient |
| Publisher: | Dover Publications an imprint of Dover Publications Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 299 pages |
| Series: | Dover Books on Mathematics |
| Genres: |
Science: general issues |