Title: Mathematics for the million /
Authors: Hogben, Lancelot Thomas, 1895-1975.
Publisher: W. W. Norton ,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Mathematics Popular works; Mathematics History.
Abstract: Explains mathematics from counting to calculus in the light of man's changing social achievements.
Contents: Mathematics in remote antiquity -- Grammar of size, order, and shape -- Euclid as a springboard -- Number lore in antiquity -- Rise and decline of the Alexandrian culture -- Dawn of nothing -- Mathematics for the mariner -- Geometry of motion -- Logarithms and the search for series -- Calculus of Newton and Leibnitz -- Algebra of the chessboard -- Algebra of choice and chance.