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A History of Mathematics

A condensed history of the longest-running argument in human thought.

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A condensed history of the longest-running argument in human thought. Key sections include: A history of mathematics.; Opening What this is.; Chapter I The Ishango bone.; Chapter II Babylon and Egypt.; Chapter III Pythagoras and the Greeks.; Chapter IV Euclid.; Chapter V Archimedes.; Chapter VI Diophantus.; Chapter VII Indian mathematics.; Chapter VIII The decimal place-value system..

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  1. 01A history of mathematics.
  2. 02Opening What this is.
  3. 03Chapter I The Ishango bone.
  4. 04Chapter II Babylon and Egypt.
  5. 05Chapter III Pythagoras and the Greeks.
  6. 06Chapter IV Euclid.
  7. 07Chapter V Archimedes.
  8. 08Chapter VI Diophantus.
  9. 09Chapter VII Indian mathematics.
  10. 10Chapter VIII The decimal place-value system.
  11. 11Chapter IX The Islamic golden age.
  12. 12Chapter X Fibonacci.
  13. 13Chapter XI The cubic equation.
  14. 14Chapter XII Descartes.
  15. 15Chapter XIII Newton vs Leibniz.
  16. 16Chapter XIV Euler.
  17. 17Chapter XV Gauss.
  18. 18Chapter XVI Cauchy.
  19. 19Chapter XVII Riemann.
  20. 20Chapter XVIII Hilbert and the 1900 problems.
  21. 21Chapter XIX Cantor and the transfinite.
  22. 22Chapter XX Noether.
  23. 23Chapter XXI Hardy and Ramanujan.
  24. 24Chapter XXII Bourbaki.
  25. 25Chapter XXIII The first computer proof.
  26. 26Chapter XXIV Wiles and Fermat.
  27. 27Chapter XXV Perelman and Poincaré.
  28. 28Chapter XXVI Tao, Green, and the new style.
  29. 29Chapter XXVII Recent breakthroughs.
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII Reading list.
  31. 31Chapter XXIX Watch & read.
  32. 32The end of the deck.
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