Geometries and Topology; Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering; Physics, Mathematical Physics, and Electrical Engineering; Probability, Statistics, and the Social Sciences; Higher Education and Institutions; Mathematics and Culture.
I. Grattan-Guinness is a professor emeritus of the history of mathematics and logic at Middlesex University, London. His many books include the Norton History of Mathematics.
"This encyclopedia is useful above all for specialists [in
mathematics] to improve their knowledge about the recent
achievements." -- Ulo Lumiste, Zentralblatt Math
"This project succeeds brilliantly. Grattan-Guinness and his
editorial board have taken an extraordinarily wide and diverse
field and arranged for its coverage by an army of respected authors
with an unanticipated coherency." -- S. M. Stigler, Mathematics and
Logic
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