Book:P. Dedron/Mathematics and Mathematicians/Volume 1

Contents

 * Foreword


 * Authors' Preface


 * Acknowledgements and Publisher's Note


 * 1. Bird's Eye View


 * 2. The Mists of Legend


 * 3. Prelude


 * 4. The Lawgivers of Geometry


 * 4.1 Euclid
 * 4.2 Archimedes
 * 4.3 Apollonius


 * 5. Autumn and Winter of Science
 * 5.1 Tradition
 * 5.2 The Greeks
 * 5.3 The Hindus
 * 5.4 The Arabs
 * 5.5 The Byzantines
 * 5.6 The West


 * 6. First Recovery


 * 7. Italian Triumphs
 * 7.1 Cardan
 * 7.2 Tartaglia


 * 8. The Father of Modern Mathematics: François Viète


 * 9. Napier and Logarithms


 * 10. The Golden Age
 * 10.1 Pierre Fermat
 * 10.2 Roberval
 * 10.3 Descartes
 * 10.4 Desargues
 * 10.5 Pascal


 * 11. Classical Work
 * 11.1 Newton
 * 11.2 Leibniz
 * 11.3 Clairault
 * 11.4 D'Alembert
 * 11.5 Lagrange, Laplace, Monge


 * Bibliographical References


 * Index of Names


 * General Index