Great moments in mathematics (before 1650)

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Great Moments in Mathematics (Before 1650)

Copyright Page

Preface

Contents

Lecture 1. Scratches and grunts

Lecture 2. The greatest egyptian pyramid

Lecture 3. From the laboratory into the study

Lecture 4. The first great theorem

Lecture 5. Precipitation of the first crisis

Lecture 6. Resolution of the crisis

Lecture 7. First step in organizing mathematic

Lecture 8. The mathematicians' bible

Lecture 9. The thinker and the thug

Lecture 10. A boost from astronomy

Lecture 11. the first great number theorist. Lecture 12. The syncopation of algebra

Lecture 13. Two early computing inventions

Lecture 14. The poet-mathematician of khorasan

Lecture 15. The blockhead

Lecture 16. An extraordinary and bizarre story

Lecture 17. Doubling the life of the astronomer

Lecture 18. The stimulating of science

Lecture 19. Slicing it thin

Lecture 20. The transform-solve-invert technique

Hints of the solution of some of the exercises

Index