Title: Mathematics
First published: 1997
Description: Gullberg attempts to "bring together the history of mathematics with a broad treatment of its foundations," including numbers and their symbols, the four fundamental rules of arithmetic, calculus, matrices and determinants, differential equations, algebra, the theory of functions, geometry, trigonometry, hyperbolic functions, analytic geometry, number theory, symbolic logic, set theory, Boolean algebra, transfinite numbers, topology, fractals, vector analysis, and probability theory.
Subjects: Mathematics, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Mathematics, history, Mathematical recreations, History
LC classification: QA36 .G86 1997