Designed for the junior/senior mathematics major who intends to teach mathematics in high school or college, this book concentrates on the history of the topics covered in an undergraduate curriculum or in elementary schools or high schools. The prerequisite for this course is at least one year of calculus.

Preface 1 Early Number Systems and Symbols 2 Mathematics in Early Civilizations 3 The Beginnings of Greek Mathematics 4 The Alexandrian School: Euclid 5 The Twilight of Greek Mathematics: Diophantus 6 The First Awakening: Fibonacci 7 The Renaissance of Mathematics: Cardan and Tartaglia 8 The Mechanical World: Descartes and Newton 8.1 The Dawn of Modern Mathematics 9 The Development of Probability Theory: Pascal, Bernoulli, and Laplace 10 The Revival of Number Theory: Fermat, Euler, and Gauss 11 Nineteenth-Century Contributions: Bolyai and Lobachevsky 12 Transition to the Twenthieth Century: Canto and Kronecker 13 Extensions and Generalizations: Hardy, Hausdorff, and Noether General Bibliography Additional Reading The Greek Alphabet Solutions to Selected Problems Index