> I'd be interested in any recommendations for math history tomes like that.
Not a book, but FWIW, I've enjoyed a few videos from Norman Wildberger's "Math History" playlist[0]. Interestingly, he has a unconventional view of infinite processes in mathematics, a point of view that used to be common about a century ago or so.
I'm sure knowing some amount of history is useful, but there must be a limit to how much of it is practically useful though.
Not a book, but FWIW, I've enjoyed a few videos from Norman Wildberger's "Math History" playlist[0]. Interestingly, he has a unconventional view of infinite processes in mathematics, a point of view that used to be common about a century ago or so.
I'm sure knowing some amount of history is useful, but there must be a limit to how much of it is practically useful though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW8Cy6WrO94&list=PL55C7C8378...