A History of Mathematics, 3rd Edition

I studied Physics at University quite a while ago, and am conversant in what might be considered quite advanced maths, but haven't used it on a day to day basis for a long time. Getting a little older the history of science and maths has become much more attractive. And this seems to the mother load daddy of all Mathematics History books. I still have huge swathes of the book to cover, and have to stop myself racing ahead to "fun" stuff I'm looking forward to. The writing style is a little dry at times even for someone with a passion for the subject, but the reward from getting through these parts to the well worked out examples help explain why most mathematics was born out of necessity to solve problems, and only recently has it blossomed into a subject in it's own curiosity. Highly recommended, but don't expect it to go easy, this is a grown up book that takes no prisoners and I have HUGE respect for that. Even though I have to Wikipedia my way through some bits.

I needed this book for one of my university courses "history of mathematics", but I found that I was actually interested in the other chapters too, the book covers a wide variety of countries and historical periods and notable mathematicians, and is very fascinating.

An excellent book for anybody interested in the History of Mathematics. Useful both as an introduction to the subject area and a reference book.

Bought for my grandson who is taking Maths & Further Maths A levels. He said it is very interesting and helpful

i have to admit that my maths is not up to standard to really enjoy the book but worth the struggle

excellent read

Great book on the history of maths.

I bought this text book for my son who is at Uni. It fits exactly to his course.