History of Modern Mathematics
by David Eugene Smith
Publisher: Columbia University 1906
ISBN/ASIN: 1603861327
Number of pages: 75
Description:
This book is an outline of the prominent movements in mathematics, presenting a few of the leading names, and calling attention to some of the bibliography of the subject. In these pages the term Mathematics will be limited to the domain of pure science.
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