Book:P. Dedron/Mathematics and Mathematicians/Volume 1

P. Dedron and J. Itard: Mathematics and Mathematicians, Volume $\text { 1 }$

Published $\text {1973}$, Transworld Student Library

ISBN 0 552 40020 3 (translated by J.V. Field)

Translated from:

Mathématiques et Mathématiciens

Contents

Foreword (Graham Flegg)

Authors' Preface

Acknowledgements and Publisher's Note

1. Bird's Eye View

2. The Mists of Legend

3. Prelude

4. The Lawgivers of Geometry

4.1 Euclid

4.2 Archimedes

4.3 Apollonius

5. Autumn and Winter of Science

5.1 Tradition

5.2 The Greeks

5.3 The Hindus

5.4 The Arabs

5.5 The Byzantines

5.6 The West

6. First Recovery

7. Italian Triumphs

7.1 Cardan

7.2 Tartaglia

8. The Father of Modern Mathematics: François Viète

9. Napier and Logarithms

10. The Golden Age

10.1 Pierre Fermat

10.2 Roberval

10.3 Descartes

10.4 Desargues

10.5 Pascal

11. Classical Work

11.1 Newton

11.2 Leibniz

11.3 Clairault

11.4 D'Alembert

11.5 Lagrange, Laplace, Monge

Bibliographical References

Index of Names

General Index

Also see

• 1973: P. Dedron and J. Itard: Mathematics and Mathematicians: Volume $\text { 2 }$ (translated by J.V. Field)