Wow! eBook
The Historical Roots of Elementary Mathematics
Author(s): Lucas N.H. Bunt (Author), Philip S. Jones (Author), Jack D. Bedient (Author)
- Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
- Publication Date: 28 Mar. 2003
- Language: English
- Print length: 336 pages
- ISBN-10: 0486255638
- ISBN-13: 9780486255637
Book Description
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.
