Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Babylonian mathematics
2: Greeks and 'Origins'
3: Greeks, practical and theoretical
4: Chinese mathematics
5: Islam, neglect and discovery
6: Understanding the 'Scientific Revolution'
7: The Calculus
8: Geometries and Space
9: Modernity and its Anxieties
10: A Chaotic End?
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Luke Hodgkin has taught mathematics and its history at the universities of Warwick and Algiers, and most recently at King's College, London. He studied mathematics at Balliol College and St. John's College, Oxford, and is a former member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He is now a freelance writer and teacher.

Reviews

The book contains more than 100 illustrations, pictures and figures, and many exercises (with solutions). An extensive bibliography with cross-references will be very helpful for students and readers. The book will be interesting for undergraduate and postgraduate students of mathematics and other readers interested in the history and philosophy of mathematics. EMS Newsletter Interesting and insightful. Herbert Kasube, MAA Online Hodgkin makes a convincing case for the importance of Ismaic mathematics. The Times Higher