A History of Mathematics in the United States and Canada: Volume 1: 1492--1900

ISBN-10
1470448874
ISBN-13
9781470448875
Series
A History of Mathematics in the United States and Canada
Category
Mathematics
Pages
501
Language
English
Published
2018
Publisher
MAA Press
Author
David E. Zitarelli

Description

This is the first truly comprehensive and thorough history of the development of mathematics and a mathematical community in the United States and Canada. This first volume of the multi-volume work takes the reader from the European encounters with North America in the fifteenth century up to the emergence of a research community the United States in the last quarter of the nineteenth. In the story of the colonial period, particular emphasis is given to several prominent colonial figures--Jefferson, Franklin, and Rittenhouse--and four important early colleges--Harvard, Québec, William & Mary,

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