Burton, David M. <br/><br/>
The history of mathematics:  An introduction/ 
by David M. Burton 
 - New York:  McGraw-Hill Higher Education  c2003, 
 - x,742p.:  ill.;  24.3 cm. 
<br/><br/> includes index 
<br/><br/>chapter 1-- Early number system and symbols -- 2. Mathematics in early civilizations -- 3. The beginning of Geek mathematics -- 4. The Alexandrian school: Euclid -- 5. The twilight of Greek mathematics 6. The first awakening: Fibonacci -- 7. The renaissance of mathematics Cardan and Tartaglia - 8. The Mechanical world: Descartes and newton -- 9. The development of probability theory: Pascal, Bernoulli and Laplace--10. The rival of number theory: Fermat , Euler and Gauss -- 11. Nineteenth century contributions: Bolyai and Labachevsky -- 12. Transition to the twentieth century : Cantor and Kronecker -- 13. Extensions and generalizations: Hardy, Hausdorff, and Noether.<br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-07-288523-8 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>BCir.510.9  / B953h