斯特罗伊克（Dirk Jan Struik，1894-2000），1894年出生于荷兰鹿特丹的一个教师家庭，1922年以题为《黎曼流形上的张量方法》的论文获得荷兰莱顿大学博士学位，1924年受洛克菲勒基金资助赴意大利罗马与张量分析奠基人列维一齐维塔合作研究，并在那里对数学史产生了兴趣，次年就到德国哥廷根与库朗一起协助编辑克莱因的《数学在19世纪的发展》，同时自己开始研究文艺复兴时期的数学史。1926年他接受美国麻省理工学院提供的职位并在那里度过了余下的学术生涯。在麻省理工学院，他与维纳合作研究微分几何，同时继续研究数学史，1940年成为麻省理工学院的正教授。他的提纲挈领的巨著《数学简史》出版至今几经改版重印，被翻译成多国文字长盛不衰。 内页插图

Revised 4th edition covers major mathematical ideas and techniques from ancient Near East to 20th-century computer theory. Work of Archimedes, Pascal, Gauss, Hilbert, etc.

A History of Mathematics, Third Edition, provides students with a solid background in the history of mathematics and focuses on the most important topics for today,s elementary, high school, and college curricula. Students will gain a deeper understanding of mathematical concepts in their historical context, and future teachers will find this book a valuable resource in develop...(展开全部)

The updated new edition of the classic and comprehensive guide to the history of mathematics For more than forty years, A History of Mathematics has been the reference of choice for those looking to learn about the fascinating history of humankind’s relationship with numbers, shapes, and patterns. This revised edition features up-to-date coverage of topics such as Fermat’s L...(展开全部)

"Boyer and Merzbach distill thousands of years of mathematics into this fascinating chronicle. From the Greeks to Godel, the mathematics is brilliant; the cast of characters is distinguished; the ebb and flow of ideas is everywhere evident. And, while tracing the development of European mathematics, the authors do not overlook the contributions of Chinese, Indian, and Arabic ci...(展开全部)

A History of Mathematics, Third Edition, provides students with a solid background in the history of mathematics and focuses on the most important topics for today,s elementary, high school, and college curricula. Students will gain a deeper understanding of mathematical concepts in their historical context, and future teachers will find this book a valuable resource in develop...(展开全部)

布雷特·L. 沃克是蒙大拿城市大学（波兹曼）杰出教授，迈克尔·马隆历史学教授，主要研究领域为环境史，医学史，日本近现代史，以及比较全球史。除本书外，还著有《疾病的家族史》（2017）、《毒岛：日本工业病史》（2010）、《日本狼的灭绝》(2005)等多部英、日文专著。其主要作品被译为日文、中文、西班牙文和葡萄牙文等多种文字。

This revised edition of a comprehensive single-volume Australian history reference incorporates the most recent historical research and contemporary debate on relevant issues. In addition to frontier violence between European settlers and Aborigines and the Stolen Generations, the volume covers the Sydney Olympics, the refugee crisis and the "Pacific solution."

Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands of years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells ow they imposed themselves on the land, and describes how they brought technology, institutions and ideas to make it their own. It rela...(展开全部)

Based on the most recent historical research and current debates about Wales and Welshness, this volume offers the most up-to-date, authoritative and accessible account of the period from Neanderthal times to the opening of the Senedd, the new home of the National Assembly for Wales, in 2006. Within a remarkably brief and stimulating compass, Geraint H. Jenkins explores the eme...(展开全部)