The History of Mathematics:an Intro 2e: An Introduction Unknown - 1991

Dubuque, IA: Wm. C. Brown Publishers, 1991 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Maroon laminated pictorial boards, white & tan titles, xi, 678 pp, bibliography, index. Edges slightly worn & soiled. Contents: early number systems & counting; mathematics in early civilizations; beginnings of Greek mathematics; the first Alexandrian school: Euclid; the second Alexandrian school: Diophantus; the first awakening: Fibonacci; the cubic controversy: Cardan and Tartaglia; the mechanical world: Descartes and Newton; the development of probability theory: Pascal, Bernoulli, and Laplace; the renaissance of number theory: Fermat, Euler, and Gauss; non-Euclidean geometry: Bolyai and Lobachevsky; the theory of sets: Georg Cantor. Shipping weight 4 lbs.. 2nd ed, 2nd ptg. . Near Fine/No dj. 24 X 19½ cm.