Mathematics in Western CultureOxford University Press, 1964 M12 31 - 512 pages This book gives a remarkably fine account of the influences mathematics has exerted on the development of philosophy, the physical sciences, religion, and the arts in Western life. |
Contents
Introduction True and False Conceptions | 3 |
The Rule of Thumb in Mathematics | 13 |
The Birth of the Mathematical Spirit | 24 |
The Elements of Euclid | 40 |
Placing a Yardstick to the Stars | 60 |
Nature Acquires Reason | 74 |
Interlude | 89 |
Renewal of the Mathematical Spirit | 99 |
The Newtonian Influence Religion | 257 |
The Newtonian Influence Literature and Aesthetics | 272 |
The Sine of G Major | 287 |
Mastery of the Ether Waves | 304 |
The Science of Human Nature | 322 |
The Mathematical Theory of Ignorance The Statistical Approach to the Study of Man | 340 |
Prediction and Probability | 359 |
Our Disorderly Universe The Statistical View of Nature | 376 |
The Harmony of the World | 110 |
Painting and Perspective | 126 |
Science Born of Art Projective Geometry | 144 |
A Discourse on Method | 159 |
The Quantitative Approach to Nature | 182 |
The Deduction of Universal Laws | 196 |
Grasping the Fleeting Instant The Calculus | 214 |
The Newtonian Influence Science and Philosophy | 234 |
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