# A History of Mathematics

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## Summary

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..

## Slide Outline

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

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