Book:B.L. van der Waerden/Science Awakening

Translation into English of Ontwakende Wetenschap from 1950.

Contents

 * 1. The Egyptians
 * 2. Number Systems, Digits and the Art of Computing
 * 3. Babylonian Mathematics
 * 4. The Age of Thales and Pythagoras
 * 5. The Golden Age
 * 6. The Century of Plato
 * 7. The Alexandrian Era (330—200 B.C.)
 * 8. The Decay of Greek Mathematics