TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hogben,Lancelot Thomas
AU  - Horrabin,J.F
TI  - Mathematics for the million
PY  - 1968///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - History
KW  - Popular works
N1  - With hardcover; Index: pp. 639-648; Cont.: Cont.: Mathematics in remote antiquity -- The grammar of size, order, and shape -- Euclid as a springboard -- Number lore in antiquity -- The rise and decline of the Alexandrian culture -- The dawn of nothing -- Mathematics for the mariner -- The geometry of motion -- Logarithms and the search for series -- The calculus of Newton and Leibnitz -- The algebra of the chessboard -- The algebra of choice and change.First published in 1937 and reprinted several times since, Hogben's book took everybody's worst subject and explained it in a way that made it comprehensible to the average person
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