Book:Howard Eves/Great Moments in Mathematics: Before 1650

Subject Matter

 * History of Mathematics

Contents

 * Preface


 * Lecture $1$: Scratches and Grunts
 * Lecture $2$: The Great 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 First Crisis
 * Lecture $7$: First Steps in Organizing Mathematics
 * 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 Stimulation of Science
 * Lecture $19$: Slicing it Thin
 * Lecture $20$: The Transform-Solve-Invert Technique


 * Hints for the Solution of Some of the Exercises


 * Index