Title: Mathematical thought from ancient to modern times.
Authors: Kline, Morris, 1908-1992.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 1972
Subjects: Mathematics History.; Mathematics history
Contents: Mathematics in Mesopotamia -- Egyptian mathematics -- The creation of classical Greek mathematics -- Euclid and Apollonius -- The Alexandrian Greek period : geometry and trigonometry -- The Alexandrian period : the reemergence of arithmetic and algebra -- The Greek rationalization of nature -- The demise of the Greek world -- The mathematics of the Hindus and Arabs -- The Medieval Period in Europe -- The Renaissance -- Mathematical contributions in the Renaissance -- Arithmetic and algebra in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- The beginning of projective geometry -- Coordinate geometry -- The mathematization of science -- The creation of the calculus -- Mathematics as of 1700 -- Calculus in the eighteenth century -- Infinite series -- Ordinary differential equations in the eighteenth century -- Partial differential equations in the eighteenth century -- Analytic and differential geometry in the eighteenth century -- The calculus of variations in the eighteenth century --^