Book:Morris Kline/Mathematics in Western Culture
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Morris Kline: Mathematics in Western Culture
Published $\text {1953}$, Oxford University Press
Subject Matter
- History of Mathematics
Contents
- I. Introduction. True and False Conceptions
- II. The Rule of Thumb in Mathematics
- III. The Birth of the Mathematical Spirit
- IV. The Elements of Euclid
- V. Placing a Yardstick to the Stars
- VI. Nature Acquires Reason
- VII. Interlude
- VIII. Renewal of the Mathematical Spirit
- IX. The Harmony of the World
- X. Painting and Perspective
- XI. Projective Geometry
- XII. A Discourse on Method
- XIII. The Quantitative Approach to Nature
- XIV. The Deduction of Universal Laws
- XV. The Calculus
- XVI. Science and Philosophy
- XVII. Religion
- XVIII. Literature and Aesthetics
- XIX. The Sine of G Major
- XX. Mastery of the Ether Waves
- XXI. The Science of Human Nature
- XXII. The Statistical Approach to the Study of Man
- XXIII. Prediction and Probability
- XXIV. The Statistical View of Nature
- XXV. The Paradoxes of the Infinite
- XXVI. New Geometries New Worlds
- XXVII. The Theory of Relativity
- XXVIII. Method and Art
- Selected References
- Index
- Copyright