A compelling and readable book that situates mathematics in human experience and history.

Important study focuses on the revival and assimilation of ancient Greek mathematics in the 13th-16th centuries, via Arabic science, and the 16th-century develo

Covering both the history of mathematics and of philosophy, Descartes's Mathematical Thought reconstructs the intellectual career of Descartes most comprehensiv

This textbook provides a unified and concise exploration of undergraduate mathematics by approaching the subject through its history. Readers will discover the

Where did math come from? Who thought up all those algebra symbols, and why? What is the story behind π π? … negative numbers? … the metric system? … qu