This classic best-seller by a well-known author introduces mathematics history to math and math education majors. Suggested essay topics and problem studies challenge students. CULTURAL CONNECTIONS sections explain the time and culture in which mathematics developed and evolved. Portraits of mathematicians and material on women in mathematics are of special interest.

ONE-BEFORE THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
1.Numeral Systems
2.Babylonian and Egyptian Mathematies
3.Pythagorean Mathematics
4.Duplication,Trisections,and Quadrature
5.Euclid and His Elements
6.Greek Mathematics After Euclid
7.Chinese,Hindu,and Arabian Mathematics
8.European Mathematics,500 to 1600
TWO-THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER
9.The Dawn of Modern Mathematics
10.Analytic Geometry and Other Precalculus
11.The Calculus and Relathe Concepts
12.The Eighteenth Century and the Exploitation of the Calculus
13.The Early Nineteenth Century and Liberation of Geometry and Algebra
14.The Later Nineteenth Century and the Arithmetization of Analysis
15.Into the Twentieth Century

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