Book:Howard Eves/Great Moments in Mathematics: Before 1650

Howard Eves: Great Moments in Mathematics: Before 1650

Published $\text {1981}$, Mathematical Association of America

ISBN 978-0-883-85310-8

Subject Matter

• History of Mathematics

Contents

Preface

Lecture $1$: Scratches and Grunts

Lecture $2$: The Great Egyptian Pyramid

Lecture $3$: From the Laboratory into the Study

Lecture $4$: The First Great Theorem

Lecture $5$: Precipitation of the First Crisis

Lecture $6$: Resolution of the First Crisis

Lecture $7$: First Steps in Organizing Mathematics

Lecture $8$: The Mathematicians' Bible

Lecture $9$: The Thinker and the Thug

Lecture $10$: A Boost from Astronomy

Lecture $11$: The First Great Number Theorist

Lecture $12$: The Syncopation of Algebra

Lecture $13$: Two Early Computing Inventions

Lecture $14$: The Poet-Mathematician of Khorasan

Lecture $15$: The Blockhead

Lecture $16$: An Extraordinary and Bizarre Story

Lecture $17$: Doubling the Life of the Astronomer

Lecture $18$: The Stimulation of Science

Lecture $19$: Slicing it Thin

Lecture $20$: The Transform-Solve-Invert Technique

Hints for the Solution of Some of the Exercises

Index