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Book Information

Editor(s): John Fauvel, Raymond Flood and Robin Wilson.
Title: Oxford figures: 800 years of the mathematical sciences
Additional book information: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000, 296, $60.00, 0-19-852309-2

References:

1.: T.H. Aston, ed., The History of the University of Oxford, 8 vols., Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1984-2000.
2.: W.W. Rouse Ball, A History of the Study of Mathematics at Cambridge, Cambridge U. Press, 1889.
3.: R.T. Gunther, Early Science in Oxford, vols. 1-2, Oxford, 1922-1923.
4.: J. Morrell, Science at Oxford, 1914-1939: Transforming an Arts University, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.
5.: E.G.R. Taylor, The Mathematical Practitioners of Tudor and Stuart England, Cambridge U. Press, 1954. MR 16:659e

Additional Information:

Reviewer(s):
Adrian Rice
Affiliation: Randolph-Macon College
Email: arice4@rmc.edu

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (2002), 425-429.

MSC (2000): Primary 01A35, 01A40, 01A45, 01A50, 01A55, 01A60, 01A73
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-02-00942-4
PII: S 0273-0979(02)00942-4
Posted: April 12, 2002
Copyright of article: Copyright 2002, American Mathematical Society


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