TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burton,David M.
TI  - The history of mathematics: an introduction 
SN  - 9780071289207
AV  - QA 21 .B96 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - McGraw-Hill
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 755-759) and index; Early number systems and symbols -- Mathematics in early civilization -- The beginnings of Greek mathematics -- The Alexandrian school: Euclid -- The twilight of Greek mathematics: Diophantus -- The first awakening: Fibonacci -- The Renaissance of mathematics: Cardan and Tartaglia -- The mechanical world: Descartes and Newton -- The development of probability theory: Pascal, Bernoulli, and Laplace -- The revival of number theory: Fermat, Euler, and Gauss -- Nineteenth-century contributions: Lobachevsky to Hilbert -- Transition to the twentieth century: Cantor and Kronecker -- Extensions and generalizations: Hardy, Hausdorff, and Noether
ER  -