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THESE three monographs are agreeably different, as well as complementary; and even where they overlap, the variety of treatment is interesting. The first section is the most detailed and (comparatively) technical; its author, as might be expected, gives an excellent and well-balanced account of Greek and medieval European mathematics. Something more might have been said about the earlier Indian inventions; only a very brief paragraph is devoted to China, and apparently nothing is said about Japan.
Die Kultur der Gegenwart.
Edited by P. Hinneberg. Die Mathematischen Wissenschaften, unter Leitung von F. Klein. Part iii., section i. Fascicles i., ii. (i. H. G. Zeuthen: Die Mathematik im Alterthum u. im Mittelalter; ii., A. Voss: Die Beziehungen d. Mathematik zur Kultur d. Gegenwart, and H. E. Timerding: Die Verbreitung mathematischen Wissens u. math. Auffassung. Berlin and Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1912–14.) Price 3 marks each.
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M., G. Die Kultur der Gegenwart . Nature 93, 423–424 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093423a0
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