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Galileo's Muse: Renaissance Mathematics And The Arts (Book Review), Calvin Jongsma Jun 2013

Galileo's Muse: Renaissance Mathematics And The Arts (Book Review), Calvin Jongsma

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Reviewed Title: Galileo's Muse: Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts by Mark A. Peterson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011, 336 pages. ISBN 9780674059726.


Mathematics And Religion: Our Languages Of Sign And Symbol (Book Review), Calvin Jongsma Jun 2012

Mathematics And Religion: Our Languages Of Sign And Symbol (Book Review), Calvin Jongsma

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Reviewed Title: Mathematics and Religion: Our Languages of Sign and Symbol by Javier Leach. West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Press, 2010, 188 pages. ISBN 9781599471495.


Routes Of Learning: Highways, Pathways, And Byways In The History Of Mathematics (Book Review), Calvin Jongsma Mar 2011

Routes Of Learning: Highways, Pathways, And Byways In The History Of Mathematics (Book Review), Calvin Jongsma

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Reviewed Title: Routes of Learning: Highways, Pathways, and Byways in the History of Mathematics by Ivor Grattan-Guinness. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xii + 372 pages, with index. ISBN: 9780801892486.


Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation Of Mathematics (Book Review), Calvin Jongsma Dec 2009

Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation Of Mathematics (Book Review), Calvin Jongsma

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Reviewed Title: Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics by Jeremy Gray. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. 515 pages. ISBN 9780691136103.


Equations From God: Pure Mathematics And Victorian Faith (Book Review), Calvin Jongsma Jun 2008

Equations From God: Pure Mathematics And Victorian Faith (Book Review), Calvin Jongsma

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Reviewed Title: Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith by Daniel J. Cohen. Baltiimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 242 pages, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 0801885531.


George Boole: His Life And Work (Book Review), Calvin Jongsma Sep 1986

George Boole: His Life And Work (Book Review), Calvin Jongsma

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Reviewed Title: George Boole: His Life and Work by Desmond MacHale. (Profiles of Genius Series, 2.) xiii + 304 pp., illus., bibls., index. Dublin: Boole Press, 1985.