Book:Herbert Westren Turnbull/The Great Mathematicians

Subject Matter

 * History of Mathematics

Contents

 * Preface
 * Preface to Third Edition: December, 1940
 * Preface to Fourth Edition: May, 1951


 * Date List


 * Chapter I: Early Beginnings: Thales, Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans
 * Chapter II: Eudoxus and the Athenian School
 * Chapter III: Alexandria: Euclid, Archimedes and Apollonius
 * Chapter IV: The Second Alexandrian School: Pappus and Diophantus
 * Chapter V: The Renaissance: Napier and Kepler; The Rise of Analysis
 * Chapter VI: Descartes and Pascal: The Early French Geometers and their Contemporaries
 * Chapter VII: Isaac Newton
 * Chapter VIII: The Bernoullis and Euler
 * Chapter IX: Maclarin and Lagrange
 * Chapter X: Gauss and Hamilton: The Nineteenth Century
 * Chapter XI: More Recent Developments