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