History of Mathematics

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Benjamin Franklin's Numbers:
An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey.
P.C. Pasles.
The Birth of Model Theory:
Löwenheim's Theorem in the Frame of the Theory of Relatives.
C. Badesa.
The Calculus Gallery:
Masterpieces from Newton to Lebesgue.
W. Dunham.
Circles Disturbed:
The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative.
A. Doxiadis and B. Mazur, eds.
Classical Probability in the Enlightenment.
L. Daston.
Classics in Game Theory.
H.W. Kuhn, ed.
Complexities:
Women in Mathematics.
B.Anne Case and A.M. Leggett, eds.
The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann.
H.H. Goldstine.
The Crest of the Peacock:
Non-European Roots of Mathematics (Third Edition).
G.G. Joseph.
e: The Story of a Number.
E. Maor.
The Essential John Nash.
J. Nash; H.W. Kuhn and S. Nasar, eds.
Euler's Gem:
The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology.
D.S. Richeson.
From the Calculus to Set Theory 1630-1910:
An Introductory History.
I. Grattan-Guinness, ed.
Gamma:
Exploring Euler's Constant.
J. Havil.
General Theory of Algebraic Equations.
E. Bézout; E. Feron, et al., trans.
Georg Cantor:
His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite.
J.W. Dauben.
How to Read Historical Mathematics.
B. Wardhaugh.
The Irrationals:
A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On.
J. Havil.
Venus in Transit.
E. Maor.
The Mathematical Career of Pierre de Fermat, 1601-1665.
M.S. Mahoney.
Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany:
Individual Fates and Global Impact.
R. Siegmund-Schultze.
Mathematicians under the Nazis.
S.L. Segal.
Mathematics Elsewhere:
An Exploration of Ideas Across Cultures.
M. Ascher.
Mathematics in Ancient Iraq:
A Social History.
E. Robson.
Mathematics in India.
K. Plofker.
The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam:
A Sourcebook.
V.J. Katz, ed.
The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth:
The Early History of Trigonometry.
G. Van Brummelen.
Mind and Nature:
Selected Writings on Philosophy, Mathematics, and Physics.
H. Weyl; P. Pesic, ed.
Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science.
H. Weyl.
Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827:
A Life in Exact Science.
C.C. Gillispie.
Plato's Ghost:
The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics.
J. Gray.
The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900.
T.M. Porter.
Sacred Mathematics:
Japanese Temple Geometry.
F. Hidetoshi and T. Rothman.
The Search for Mathematical Roots, 1870-1940:
Logics, Set Theories and the Foundations of Mathematics from Cantor through Russell to Gödel.
I. Grattan-Guinness.
The Story of Mathematics.
R. Mankiewicz.
To Infinity and Beyond:
A Cultural History of the Infinite.
E. Maor.
Trigonometric Delights.
E. Maor.
The Universe in Zero Words:
The Story of Mathematics as Told through Equations.
D. Mackenzie.
A Wealth of Numbers:
An Anthology of 500 Years of Popular Mathematics Writing.
B. Wardhaugh, ed.
When Computers Were Human.
D.A. Grier.

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