Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times

Morris Kline0195061357, 9780195061352

Now available in a new three-volume paperback edition, Morris Kline’s monumental work presents the major creations in mathematics from its beginnings in Babylonia and Egypt through the first few decades of the twentieth century. Organized around the central ideas of mathematical thought, as well as the men responsible for them, this comprehensive history provides a broad panorama of the development of mathematics, displaying the unity behind the disconnected branches of the discipline today. Beginning with the origins of mathematics in Babylonia and Egypt, Volume One includes chapters on classical Greek and Alexandrian mathematics, Hindu and Arabic contributions, algebra in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, coordinate geometry, and the creation of calculus.