Book:Vera Sanford/A Short History of Mathematics

Vera Sanford: A Short History of Mathematics

Published $\text {1929}$, Houghton Mifflin Company

Subject Matter

• History of Mathematics

Contents

Introduction (David Eugene Smith)

Preface

$\text {I}$. Men Who Made Mathematics

$\text {II}$. Arithmetic

$\text {III}$. Commercial Mathematics

$\text {IV}$. Algebra

$\text {V}$. Verbal Problems

$\text {VI}$. Practical Geometry

$\text {VII}$. Demonstrative Geometry

$\text {VIII}$. Trigonometry

$\text {IX}$. Analytic Geometry

$\text {X}$. Calculus

$\text {XI}$. Theory of Numbers

$\text {XII}$. Calculating Devices

$\text {XIII}$. Weights and Measures

$\text {XIV}$. The Place of Mathematics in the School Curriculum

General Histories of Mathematics

Chronological Outline

Index

Cited by

1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles