… explorers of the unknown territories of the mathematical world. While a second-hand account
of a mathematical expedition … It is this excitement and immediacy of mathematical discovery …

… They never saw any mathematics, just formulas and algorithms. Mathematical Expeditions is
a book … This book contains the stories of five mathematical journeys into new realms, pieced …

… This book contains the stories of five mathematical journeys into new realms, told through
the writings of the explorers themselves. Some were guided by mere curiosity and the thrill of …

… It is in the spirit of Gould's insights on an approach to science based on primary texts that
we offer the present book of annotated mathematical sources, from which our undergraduate …

… Mathematical Expeditions: Chronicles by the Explorers [4] by the last two authors. But in Further
Chronicles by the Explorers… using original sources to teach mathematical ideas to a new …

… Sitchin reveals the foundational research and the adventurous expeditions that resulted
in his writing the bestselling The Earth Chronicles series. Ranging from Mayan temples in …

… In later times stories abounded about mathematicians as heroic explorers or tragic young …
Centuries later, the description of mathematicians as enterprising explorers is not only a …

… If Apian’s Cosmographia represents one of two essential forms of cosmographical thought
in the wake of the late medieval world chronicles – the mathematical treatise – Münster’s …

… mere braggadocio; as a group, English explorers were not nearly as accomplished as
their … the expedition, the research and sailing experience of accomplished explorers and …

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