Table of Contents

Part A Brief lives: The ancients; the forerunners; the early moderns; the mature moderns. Part B Memorable mathematics.

About the Author

GEORGE F. SIMMONS has academic degree from the CAlifornia Institute of Technology, the university of chicago, and Yale University. He taught at several colleges and universities before joining the faculty of Colorado college in 1962, where he is a professor of mathematics. He is also the author of introduction to topology and Modern Analysis, Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell and calculus with Analytic Geometry.