A History of Mathematics: C. 70,000 B.C. to the present

This book gives a comprehensive development of mathematics from the prehistoric Ishango ‘tally’ bone of the Congo (c. 20,000 BC), the Sumerians in Babylonia (c. 3000 BC) then through the Egyptian, Greek (Hellenistic Period), Arabian and Islamic mathematics including Chinese and Indian contributions. Topics beginning with algebra and proceeding through calculus, combinatorics, geometry, logic, mathematical notation, number theory, statistics and trigonometry. A chapter is devoted to published critical papers on mathematics with a wonderful timeline of mathematics that covers the major events concerning the field of mathematics. Library of Congress Control Number: 2015917846