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General Mathematics

  • Anglin, W. S., Lambek, J., The Heritage of Thales, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1995, ISBN 0-387-94544-X.
  • Boyer, C. B., A History of Mathematics, Second Edition, Revised by Uta C. Merzbach, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1991, (Paperback), ISBN 0-471-54397-7.
  • Emmer, M., (ed.), Mathematics and Culture, Vol. I, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2004, ISBN 3-540-01770-4.
  • Gårding, L., Encounter with Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, New York, Heidelberg, Berlin, 1977, ISBN 0-387-90229-5.
  • Hall, T., Matematikens utveckling, Gleerups Bokförlag, Lund, 1970.
  • Hollingsdale, S., Makers of Mathematics, Dover Publications Inc., Mineola, New York, 1994 (1987), ISBN 0-486-45007-4.
  • Klein, F., Vorlesungen über die Entwicklung der Mathematik im 19. Jahrhundert, Teil II, Für den Druck bearbeitet von R. Courant und St. Cohn-Vossen, Berlin, Verlag von Julius Springer, 1927.
  • Kline M., Mathematical Thought: From Ancient to Modern Times, Oxford Paperbacks, Oxford University Press, 1990 (1972), ISBN 0-19-506137-3.
  • Kline. M., Mathematics and the Search for Knowledge, Oxford University Press, New York, 1985, ISBN 0-19-503533-X.
  • Kline, M., Mathematics and the Physical World, Dover Publications, Inc., New york, 1981 (1959), ISBN 0-486-24104-1.
  • Kline, M., Matematiken i den Västerländska Kulturen, Bokförlaget Prisma, Stockholm, 1968 (1953).
  • McLeish, J., Matematikens Kulturhistoria, Översättning av Jan Wahlén, Andra Tryckningen, Bokförlaget Forum AB, 1994 (1991), ISBN 91-37-10200-1.
  • Smith, D. E., History of Mathematics, Volume I, General Survey of the History of Elementary Mathematics, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1958 (1923, 1951), ISBN 0-486-20429-4.
  • Stillwell, J., Mathematics and Its History, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1989, Corrected Fifth Printing, 1999, ISBN 0-387-96981-0.
  • Struik, D. J., A Concise History of Mathematics, Fourth Revised Edition, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1987, (!948, 1967), ISBN 0-486-60255-9.
  • Wolff, P., Breakthroughs in Mathematics, Signet Science Library Books, The New American Library, 1963

Topic-Specific Mathematics

Analysis

Probability

  • Hagström K.-G., Exakt Hasard: Slump och Beräkning i Spel, Vetenskap och Konst, Bokförlaget Natur och Kultur, Stockholm, 1965.

Algebra

  • Aczel, A. D., The Artist and the Mathematician: The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Genious Mathematician who Never Existed, High Stakes Publishing, London, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84344-039-0.
  • Bashmakova, I., Smirnova, G., The Beginnings and Evolution of Algebra, The Mathematical Association of America, 2000, ISBN 0-88385-329-9.
  • Derbyshire, J., Unknown Quantity - A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra, Atlantic Books, London, 2008 (2006), ISBN 978-1-84354-570-5.
  • Hawkins, T., Emergence of the Theory of Lie Groups - An Essay in the History of Mathematics 1869 - 1926, Springer, 2000, ISBN 0-387-98963-3.
  • Klein, J., Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1992 (1968), ISBN 0-486-27289-3.
  • Ore, O., Number Theory and Its History, Dover Publications, Inc., New Tork, 1988 (1948), ISBN 0-486-65620-9.
  • Alten, H.-W., Djafari Naini, A., Folkerts, M., Schlosser H., Schlote K.-H., Wußing, H., 4000 Jahre Algebra - Geschichte Kulturen Menschen, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2003, ISBN 3-540-43554-9.

Geometry

  • Jammer, M., Concepts of Space - The History of Theories of Space in Physics, Foreword by Albert Einstein, Third, Enlarged Edition, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1993 (1954), ISBN 0-486-27119-6.
  • Persson, E., (Ed.), Den Sköna Geometrin, Gidlunds Bokförlag i samarbete med Riksutställningar, 1985, ISBN 91-7844-0483.
  • Richards, J., Mathematical Visions - The Pursuit of Geometry in Victorian England, Academic Press, Inc., 1988, ISBN 0-12-587445-6.
  • Scriba, C. J., Schreiber, P., 5000 Jahre Geometrie, Geschichte Kulturen Menschen, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2001, ISBN 3-540-67924-3.

Vector Analysis

Trigonometry

  • Maor, E., Trigonometric Delights, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 1998, Sixth printing, and first paperback printing, 2002, ISBN 0-691-09541-8.

Magic Numbers

Zero
  • Seife, C., Zero - The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, Souvernir Press Ltd., London, 2009 (2000), ISBN 978-0-285-63594-4.
Aleph
Pi
  • Blatner, D., Pi - Det fantastiska talet π, Svenska Förlaget, 1997, ISBN 91-7738-482-2.
Gamma
Phi
e
  • Maor, E., e: The Story of a Number, Princeton Paperbacks, Princeton University Press, 1994, Ninth printing, and first paperback printing, 1998, ISBN 0-691-05854-7.
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Notation

Problem-based Mathematics

  • Dörrie, H., 100 Great Problems of Elementary Mathematics: Their History and Solution, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1965 (1958), ISBN 0-486-61348-8.
  • Klee, V., Wagon, S., Alte und neue ungelöste Probleme in der Zahlenteorie und Geometrie der Ebene, Aus dem Amerikanischen von Manfred Stern, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, Boston, Berlin, 1997 (1991), ISBN 3-7643-5308-2.
  • Ogilvy, C. S., Matematiska problem som väntar på sin lösning, Originalets titel: "Tomorrow's math, TIll svenska av Kerstin Furenlid, Bokförlaget Prisma, Stockholm, 1965 (1962).

Culture-Specific Mathematics

Greek Mathematics

  • Heath, T. L., A History of Greek Mathematics, Volume I: From Thales to Euclid, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1981 (1921), With Corrrections, ISBN 0-486-24073-8.
  • Heath, T. L., A History of Greek Mathematics, Volume II: From Aristarchus to Diophantus, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1981 (1921), With Corrrections, ISBN 0-486-24074-8.
  • Heath, T. L., (Ed.), The Works of Archimedes - with the method of Archimedes, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1953, an unabridged republication of the following two works: The Heath edition of the Works of Archimedes, originally published in 1897, and The Method of Archimedes, originally published in 1912, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 53-3224.

Islamic Mathematics

Inca Mathematics

Vedic Mathematics

African Mathematics

Source material

  • Cardano, G., Ars Magna or the Rules of Algebra, 1545, Translated by T. Richard Witmer, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1993 (1968), ISBN 0-486-67811-3.
  • Descartes, R., La Geometrie, 1637, The geometry of René Descartes, translated from the French and Latin by David Eugene Smith and Marcia L. Latham, with a facsimile of the first edition, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1954 (1925), ISBN 0-486-60068-8.
  • Diocles, On Burning Mirrors, The Arabic Translation of the Lost Greek Original, Edited, with Englilsh Translation and Commentary by G. J. Toomer, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1976, ISBN 3-540-07478-3.
  • Fauvel, J., Gray, J., (eds.), The History of Mathematics - A Reader, The Open University, McMillan Press Ltd., 1987, ISBN 0-333-42791-2.
  • Guthrie, K. S., The Pythagorean Source Book and Library, An Anthology of Ancient Writings Which Relate to Pythagoras and Pythagorean Philosophy, Phanes Press, 1987, ISBN 0-933999-51-8.
  • Robins, G., Shute, C., The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus: An Ancient Egyptian Text, Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press, 1998 (1987), ISBN 0-7141-0944-4.
  • Smith, D. E., A Source Book in Mathematics, 125 Selections from the Classic Writings of Pascal, Leibniz, Euler, Fermat, Gauss, Descartes, Newton, Riemann, and many others, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1959 (1929), ISBN 0-486-64690-4.


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