TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burton, David M., author. 
TI  - The history of mathematics : : an introduction / 
SN  - 9780071253895
AV  - CIR QA 21 B87 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Boston : 
PB  - McGraw Hill, 
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index.; Includes bibliographical references; Ch. 1	Early number systems and symbols	1
Ch. 2	Mathematics in early civilizations	33
Ch. 3	The beginnings of Greek mathematics	85
Ch. 4	The Alexandrian school : Euclid	143
Ch. 5	The twilight of Greek mathematics : Diophantus	215
Ch. 6	The first awakening : Fibonacci	271
Ch. 7	The renaissance of mathematics : Cardan and Tartaglia	303
Ch. 8	The mechanical world : Descartes and Newton	339
Ch. 9	The development of probability theory : Pascal, Bernoulli, and Laplace	439
Ch. 10	The revival of number theory : Fermat, Euler, and Gauss	497
Ch. 11	Nineteenth-century contributions : Lobachevsky to Hilbert	561
Ch. 12	Transition to the twentieth century : Cantor and Kronecker	653
Ch. 13	Extensions and generalizations : Hardy, Hausdorff and Noether	713
ER  -