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Textbooks

• Required: Dunham, William, Journey through Genius, Penguin Books, 1990.
                    Stillwell, John, Mathematics and Its History, 3rd Ed., Spring, 2010.

• Recommended: Struik, Dirk, A Concise History of Mathematics, Dover, 1987.

Classics

• Rind Papyrus

• Cuneiform Tablets

• Plimpton 322

• Andean Calculators

• Euclid's Elements

• Archimedes' Palimpsest

• Article on Hypatia 

• Math in the Islamic World (800-1400)

• Math in the early Renaissance (1300-1500

• Math in the late Renaissance (1500-1650)

• Calculus in the 1600s

• Analysis in the 1700s

• Algebra in the 1700s

Other Readings

• MacTutor History of Mathematics

• History of Mathematics Before the Seventeenth Century, Raymond Clare Archibald - Access on campus

• History of Mathematics After the Sixteenth Century

• MAA History of Math Collection

Books

• A History of Mathematics, Brief Edition, Victor J. Katz, Pearson Addison-Wesley, 2004.
• A History of Mathematics - An Introduction, Victor Katz, Harper Collins, NY, 1993.
• A History of Mathematics, 2nd Ed., Carl B. Boyer, Revised by Uta C. Merzbach, Wiley, NY, 1991.
• The History of Mathematics - An Introduction, David M. Burton, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1997.
• A Short Account of the History of Mathematics, 5th Ed., W. W. Rouse Ball, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1912
• A Concise History of Mathematics, Dirk J. Struik, Dover Publications, New York, 1967.
• A History of Mathematics, 5th Ed., Florian A. Cajori, Chelsea, New York, 1991
• Elements of the History of Mathematics, Nicolas Bourbaki, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1993.
• History of Mathematics, 2 volumes, David E. Smith, Bover, New York, 1958.
• Mathematics in Western Culture, Morris Kline, Oxford University Press, New York, 1953.
• Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times, Morris Kline, Oxford University Press, New York, 1972.
• The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics, Edna E. Kramer, Hawthorn Books, New York, 1970, or Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1982.

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