Mathematics for the liberal arts (2013)
APPENDIX B. SUGGESTED READING
Chapters 1–3.
Jason Socrates Bardi, The Calculus Wars: Newton, Leibniz, and the Greatest Mathematical Clash of All Time, Thunder’s Mouth Press, New York, 2006
Carl B. Boyer, A History of Mathematics, second edition, Wiley, New York, 1991
Ronald Calinger, A Contextual History of Mathematics, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1999
Keith Devlin, Mathematics: The Science of Patterns, Scientific American Library, New York, 1997
Euclid, The Thirteen Books of The Elements, Vol. 1 (Books I and II), with introduction and commentary by Sir Thomas L. Heath, second edition, Dover, New York, 1956
Howard Eves, Great Moments in Mathematics Before 1650, The Mathematical Association of America, Washington, DC, 1983
Georges Ifrah, From One to Zero: A Universal History of Numbers, Penguin Books, New York, 1985
Ioan James, Remarkable Mathematicians: from Euler to von Neumann, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002
Victor J. Katz, A History of Mathematics: An Introduction, third edition, Addison-Wesley, New York, 2009
Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World, Harper Collins, New York, 2005
William Poundstone, Prisoner’s Dilemma, Anchor, New York, 1993
Steven Schwarzman, The Words of Mathematics: An Etymological Dictionary of Mathematical Terms Used in English, The Mathematical Association of America, Washington, DC, 1994
Ian Stewart, The Story of Mathematics: From Babylonian Numerals to Chaos Theory,, Quercus, London, 2007
Philip D. Straffin, Game Theory and Strategy, The Mathematical Association of America, Washington, DC, 1993
Chapter 4.
W. M. Priestley, Calculus: A Liberal Art, second edition, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1998
George F. Simmons, Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Mathematics, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1992
Robert M. Young, Excursions in Calculus: An Interplay of the Continuous and the Discrete, Mathematical Association of America, Washington, DC, 1992
Chapter 5.
Martin Erickson, Anthony Vazzana, Introduction to Number Theory, Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2008
Joseph H. Silverman, A Friendly Introduction to Number Theory, Pearson/Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2006
Simon Singh, Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem, Walker and Company, New York, 1997