TY - BOOK AU - Fauvel,John AU - Gray,Jeremy ED - Open University. TI - The History of mathematics: a reader SN - 0333427904 (cased) : AV - IN PROCESS (UTILITY LOAD) U1 - 510/.9 19 PY - 1987/// CY - Basingstoke PB - Macmillan Education in association with the Open University KW - Mathematics KW - History KW - Mathematics, to 1982 N1 - Includes index; Bibliography: pxxiv; Origins -- Mathematics in classical Greece -- Euclid's elements -- Archimedes and Apollonius -- Mathematical traditions in the Hellenistic Age -- Islamic mathematics -- Mathematics in mediaeval Europe -- Sixteenth-century European mathematics -- Mathematical sciences in Tudor and Stuart England -- Mathematics and the scientific revolution -- Isaac Newton -- Leibniz and his followers -- Euler and his contempories -- Gauss, and the origins of structural algebra -- Non-Euclidean geometry -- Projective geometry in the nineteenth century -- The mechanization of calculation ER -