History of Mathematics. Topical Surveys

Surveys with a tight focus

• The Exact Sciences in Antiquity
Otto Neugebauer, $6.
• A History of Greek Mathematics
Sir Thomas Heath. 2 volumes. $26.
Thorough. Includes chapters on Pythagoras (2 in fact), Thales, Euclid, Archimedes, conic sections, and Diophantus.
• Hellenistic Science and Culture in the last Three Centuries B.C.
George Sarton. $14.
Marvelous book.
• Algebra in Ancient and Modern Times
Varadarajan. $25
An attractive short account of the development of algebra.
• Prospects in Mathematics
Conference Proceedings, Princeton 1996. $29

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File date: Feb. 1999