TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burton,David M.
TI  - The history of mathematics: an introduction 
SN  - 9780071113601
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Boston
PB  - McGraw-Hill
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Early Number Systems and Symbols -- Mathematics in Early Civilizations --  The Beginnings of Greek Mathematics -- The Alexandrian School: Euclid -- The Twilight of Greek Mathematics: Diophantus -- The First Awakening: Fibonacci -- The Renaissance of Mathematics: Cardan and Tartaglia -- The Mechanical World: Descartes and Newton -- The Development of Probability Theory: Pascal, Bernoulli, and LaPlace -- The Revival of Number Theory: Fermat, Euler, and Gauss -- Nineteenth Century Contributions: Bolyai and Lobachevsky
ER  -