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Stimulating account of development of basic mathematics from arithmetic, algebra, geometry and trigonometry, to calculus, differential equations and non-Euclidean geometries. Also describes how math is used in optics, astronomy, motion under the law of gravitation, acoustics, electromagnetism, other phenomena.Kline, Morris is the author of 'Mathematics and the Physical World' with ISBN 9780486241043 and ISBN 0486241041.
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