TY - BOOK AU - Fauvel,John AU - Gray,Jeremy ED - Open University. TI - The History of mathematics : : a reader / SN - 0333427912 (pbk) U1 - 510.9 PY - 1987/// CY - Basingstoke : PB - Macmillan Education in association with the Open Un iversity, KW - Mathematics KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references ( pxxiv.) and index; Origins -- Mathematics in classical Greece -- Euclid's elements -- A rchimedes and Apollonius -- Mathematical traditions in the Hellenistic Age -- Islamic mathematics -- Mathematics in mediaeval Europe -- Sixtee nth-century European mathematics -- Mathematical sciences in Tudor and Stuart England -- Mathematics and the scientific revolution -- Isaac Ne wton -- Leibniz and his followers -- Euler and his contempories -- Gaus s, and the origins of structural algebra -- Non-Euclidean geometry -- P rojective geometry in the nineteenth century -- The mechanization of ca lculation ER -