Burton, David M., author.  <br/><br/>
The history of mathematics :   an introduction /  
David M. Burton.  
 - Sixth edition.  
 - Boston :   McGraw Hill,   c2007. 
 - xii, 788 pages :   illustrations ;   24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index.  
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Ch. 1	Early number systems and symbols	1<br/>Ch. 2	Mathematics in early civilizations	33<br/>Ch. 3	The beginnings of Greek mathematics	85<br/>Ch. 4	The Alexandrian school : Euclid	143<br/>Ch. 5	The twilight of Greek mathematics : Diophantus	215<br/>Ch. 6	The first awakening : Fibonacci	271<br/>Ch. 7	The renaissance of mathematics : Cardan and Tartaglia	303<br/>Ch. 8	The mechanical world : Descartes and Newton	339<br/>Ch. 9	The development of probability theory : Pascal, Bernoulli, and Laplace	439<br/>Ch. 10	The revival of number theory : Fermat, Euler, and Gauss	497<br/>Ch. 11	Nineteenth-century contributions : Lobachevsky to Hilbert	561<br/>Ch. 12	Transition to the twentieth century : Cantor and Kronecker	653<br/>Ch. 13	Extensions and generalizations : Hardy, Hausdorff and Noether	713 
<br/><br/><br/>In English text. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780071253895 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mathematics--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>CIR QA 21  / B87 2007