History of Mathematics, A

A History of Mathematics, Third Edition, provides students with a solid background in the history of mathematics and focuses on the most important topics for today's elementary, high school, and college curricula. Students will gain a deeper understanding of mathematical concepts in their historical context, and future teachers will find this book a valuable resource in developing lesson plans based on the history of each topic. This book is ideal for a junior or senior level course in the history of mathematics for mathematics majors intending to become teachers.

Part I. Ancient Mathematics 1. Egypt and Mesopotamia 1.1 Egypt 1.2 Mesopotamia 2. The Beginnings of Mathematics in Greece 2.1 The Earliest Greek Mathematics 2.2 The Time of Plato 2.3 Aristotle 3. Euclid 3.1 Introduction to the Elements 3.2 Book I and the Pythagorean Theorem 3.3 Book II and Geometric Algebra 3.4 Circles and the Pentagon 3.5 Ratio and Proportion 3.6 Number Theory 3.7 Irrational Magnitudes 3.8 Solid Geometry and the Method of Exhaustion 3.9 Euclid's Data 4. Archimedes and Apollonius 4.1 Archimedes and Physics 4.2 Archimedes and Numerical Calculations 4.3 Archimedes and Geometry 4.4 Conic Sections Before Apollonius 4.5 The Conics of Apollonius 5. Mathematical Methods in Hellenistic Times 5.1 Astronomy Before Ptolemy 5.2 Ptolemy and The Almagest 5.3 Practical Mathematics 6. The Final Chapter of Greek Mathematics 6.1 Nichomachus and Elementary Number Theory 6.2 Diophantus and Greek Algebra 6.3 Pappus and Analysis Part II. Medieval Mathematics 7. Ancient and Medieval China 7.1 Introduction to Mathematics in China 7.2 Calculations 7.3 Geometry 7.4 Solving Equations 7.5 Indeterminate Analysis 7.6 Transmission to and from China 8. Ancient and Medieval India 8.1 Introduction to Mathematics in India 8.2 Calculations 8.3 Geometry 8.4 Equation Solving 8.5 Indeterminate Analysis 8.6 Combinatorics 8.7 Trigonometry 8.8 Transmission to and from India 9. The Mathematics of Islam 9.1 Introduction to Mathematics in Islam 9.2 Decimal Arithmetic 9.3 Algebra 9.4 Combinatorics 9.5 Geometry 9.6 Trigonometry 9.7 Transmission of Islamic Mathematics 10. Medieval Europe 10.1 Introduction to the Mathematics of Medieval Europe 10.2 Geometry and Trigonometry 10.3 Combinatorics 10.4 Medieval Algebra 10.5 The Mathematics of Kinematics 11. Mathematics Elsewhere 11.1 Mathematics at the Turn of the Fourteenth Century 11.2 Mathematics in America, Africa, and the Pacific Part III. Early Modern Mathematics 12. Algebra in the Renaissance 12.1 The Italian Abacists 12.2 Algebra in France, Germany, England, and Portugal 12.3 The Solution of the Cubic Equation 12.4 Viete, Algebraic Symbolism, and Analysis 12.5 Simon Stevin and Decimal Analysis 13. Mathematical Methods in the Renaissance 13.1 Perspective 13.2 Navigation and Geography 13.3 Astronomy and Trigonometry 13.4 Logarithms 13.5 Kinematics 14. Geometry, Algebra and Probability in the Seventeenth Century 14.1 The Theory of Equations 14.2 Analytic Geometry 14.3 Elementary Probability 14.4 Number Theory 14.5 Projective Geometry 15. The Beginnings of Calculus 15.1 Tangents and Extrema 15.2 Areas and Volumes 15.3 Rectification of Curves and the Fundamental Theorem 16. Newton and Leibniz 16.1 Isaac Newton 16.2 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 16.3 First Calculus Texts Part IV. Modern Mathematics 17. Analysis in the Eighteenth Century 17.1 Differential Equations 17.2 The Calculus of Several Variables 17.3 Calculus Texts 17.4 The Foundations of Calculus 18. Probability and Statistics in