Table of Contents

EARLY WESTERN MATHEMATICS. Origins. Ancient Egyptian Mathematics. Mesopotamia. The Early Greeks. The Euclidean Synthesis. Archimedes and Apollonius. Hellenistic Mathematical Science. Mathematics in the Roman Empire. OTHER MATHEMATICAL TRADITIONS. The Mathematics of the Hindus. Chinese Mathematics. Korea and Japan. Islamic Mathematics. MODERN MATHEMATICS. Medieval Europe. The Renaissance. The Calculus. Seventeenth--Century Mathematics. Beyond the Calculus. Modern Mathematical Science. Contemporary Mathematics. Answers to Selected Exercises. Index.

About the Author

Roger Cooke is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Vermont. For many years he has taught a general introduction to the history of mathematics.