MATH308: Historical Development of Mathematical Concepts and Ideas

In recent decades it has become obvious that mathematics has always been a worldwide activity. But this is the first book to provide a substantial collection of English translations of key mathematical texts from the five most important ancient and medieval non-Western mathematical cultures, and to put them into full historical and mathematical context. The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam gives English readers a firsthand understanding and appreciation of these cultures’ important contributions to world mathematics.

Reviewed by MAA Reviews: https://old.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/the-mathematics-of-egypt-mesopotamia-china-india-and-islam-a-sourcebook

Reviewed by MAA Convergent: https://old.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/the-mathematics-of-egypt-mesopotamia-china-india-and-islam

This sourcebook presents original Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic sources of medieval mathematics, and shows their cross-cultural influences. Most of the Hebrew and Arabic sources appear here in translation for the first time.

Reviewed by MAA Reviews: https://old.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/sourcebook-in-the-mathematics-of-medieval-europe-and-north-africa