The Development of Mathematics Throughout the Centuries

Throughout the book, readers take a journey throughout time andobserve how people around the world have understood these patternsof quantity, structure, and dimension around them. TheDevelopment of Mathematics Throughout the Centuries: A BriefHistory in a Cultural Contex provides a brief overview of thehistory of mathematics in a very straightforward and understandablemanner and also addresses major findings that influenced thedevelopment of mathematics as a coherent discipline. This book: * Highlights the contributions made by various world culturesincluding African, Egyptian, Babylonian, Chinese, Indian, Islamic, and pre-Columbian American mathematics * Features an approach that is not too rigorous and is idealfor a one-semester course of the history of mathematics. * Includes a Resources and Recommended Reading section forfurther exploration and has been extensively classroom-tested