A History of Mathematics </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Boyer, Carl B.</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">8:3</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>John Wiley & Sons</publisher> <dateIssued>1991</dateIssued> <edition>Second Edition</edition> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>715tr.</extent> <extent>paperback, illustration</extent> <extent>24 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>This revised edition features up-to-date coverage of topics such as Fermat's Last Theorem and the Poincare Conjecture, in addition to recent advances in areas such as finite group theory and computer-aided proofs. It distills thousands of years of mathematics into a single, approachable volume.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Carl B. Boyer, Uta C.Merzbach</note> <subject> <topic>Science</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Civilization -- History</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">510.9</classification> <classification authority="ddc">B791-C28</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780471543978</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/16509/9.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/16509/9.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2025-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071615.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>