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Mathematics is “the science of numbers, quantities, and shapes and the relations between them”. Its history dates back almost three millennia – indeed, many insights found in this book have been known for centuries. The driving force behind the development of mathematics may be found in human nature: As a species, we seem to be uniquely interested in finding rational explanations for regular or repetitive phenomena in order to predict them.
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Glaeser, G. (2017). Introduction. In: Math Tools. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66960-1_1
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