Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

This book is intended for those beginning their study of mathematics at the university level, as well as the general reader who would like to learn more about what it means to "do" mathematics.

The author is well known for his clarity of writing and his many contributions as a researcher in approximation theory. This book covers the main topics concerned with interpolation and approximation by polynomials.

In this second edition of Chiefs and Challengers, Phillips brings the story into the twentieth century by drawing upon recent historical and anthropological scholarship and upon seldom-used documentary evidence.

This book is a collection of inter-connected topics in areas of mathematics which particularly interest the author, ranging over the two millennia from the work of Archimedes, who died in the year 212 BC, to the "Werke" of Gauss, who was ...