The History of mathematics
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by John Fauvel and Jeremy Gray.
Contributors: Fauvel, John.; Gray, Jeremy, 1947-; Open University.
Publisher: Macmillan Education in association with the Open University
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 628
Subjects: Mathematics -- History
Notes: Includes indexes.

Bibliography: pxxiv.
Table of contents: title: Origins; title: Mathematics in classical Greece; title: Euclid's elements; title: Archimedes and Apollonius; title: Mathematical traditions in the Hellenistic Age; title: Islamic mathematics; title: Mathematics in mediaeval Europe; title: Sixteenth-century European mathematics; title: Mathematical sciences in Tudor and Stuart England; title: Mathematics and the scientific revolution; title: Isaac Newton; title: Leibniz and his followers; title: Euler and his contemporaries; title: Gauss, and the origins of structural algebra; title: Non-Euclidean geometry; title: Projective geometry in the nineteenth century; title: The mechanization of calculation.