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1. What Is Mathematics?
2. Babylonian and
Egyptian Mathematics
3. Greek Mathematics—
Thales to Euclid
4. Greek Mathematics—
Archimedes to Hypatia
5. Astronomy and the
Origins of Trigonometry
6. Indian Mathematics—
Trigonometry Blossoms
7. Chinese Mathematics—
Advances in Computation
8. Islamic Mathematics—
The Creation of Algebra
9. Italian Algebraists Solve
the Cubic
10. Napier and the
Natural Logarithm
11. Galileo and the Mathematics
of Motion
12. Fermat, Descartes,
and Analytic Geometry
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What Did They Do Before Zero?
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13. Newton—Modeling the Universe
14. Leibniz and the
Emergence of Calculus
15. Euler—Calculus Proves
Its Promise
16. Geometry—From Alhambra
to Escher
17. Gauss—Invention of
Differential Geometry
18. Algebra Becomes the
Science of Symmetry
19. Modern Analysis—
Fourier to Carleson
20. Riemann Sets New
Directions for Analysis
21. Sylvester and Ramanujan—
Different Worlds
22. Fermat’s Last Theorem—
The Final Triumph
23. Mathematics—The Ultimate
Physical Reality
24. Problems and Prospects for the
21st Century
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