The story of mathematics - Mankiewicz, Richard (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2000)
Machine generated contents note: foreword by Ian stewart -- preface -- year zero -- watchers of the skies -- the pythagorean theorem -- the elements -- ten computational canons -- mathematical sutras -- the house of wisdom -- the liberal arts -- the renaissance perspective -- mathematics for the common wealth -- the marriage of algebra and geometry -- the clockwork universe -- mathematics in motion -- oceans and stars -- the quintic -- new geometries -- dialects of algebra -- fields of action -- catching infinity -- of dice and genes -- war games -- mathematics and modern art -- machine codes -- chaos and compleHity -- acknowledgements a select bibliography -- index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-189) and index.
Keywords: Mathematics -- History