History of Mathematics

Numbers: A Cultural History provides students with a compelling interdisciplinary view of the development of mathematics and its relationship to wo...

The legendary Renaissance math duel that ushered in the modern age of algebraThe Secret Formula tells the story of two Renaissance mathematicians w...

How do you begin to understand the concept of nothing? Where does it begin and where does it end?From the zeros of the mathematician to the void of...

A life of Moore, 17th-century mathematician and scientist involved in the draining of the fens, the building of the mole at Tangier, and the founda...

This monumental book traces the origins and development of mathematics in the ancient Middle East, from its earliest beginnings in the fourth mille...

Elliptic Tales describes the latest developments in number theory by looking at one of the most exciting unsolved problems in contemporary mathemat...

These selected mathematical writings cover the years when the foundations were laid for the theory of numbers, analytic geometry, and the calculus....

Thomas Hankins and Robert Silverman investigate an array of instruments from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century that seem at first to b...

This classic study by the eminent Dutch historian of science E. J. Dijksterhuis (1892-1965) presents the work of the Greek mathematician and mechan...

Leonhard Euler's polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects--from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller's buildings and ...

Ten amazing curves personally selected by one of today's most important math writersCurves for the Mathematically Curious is a thoughtfully curated...