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A Short Account of the History of Mathematics
W. W. Rouse Ball
A Short Account of the History of Mathematics is a classic and essential text in the history of math. It covers all of the major historical periods in the development of mathematics to the end of the 19th century, and it includes biographies of key figures in the field.
Source: W. W. Rouse Ball, A Short Account of the History of Mathematics (1908)
Lexile Level: TBD
Origin: American
Genre: Non-fiction, biography, MathReading Level: 12 Language: English File name: sahm Sunshine State Standards:
LA.A.2.3: The student constructs meaning from a wide range of texts.LA.D.2.3: The student understands the power of language.
LA.E.2.3: The student responds critically to fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
Theme: MathematicsReading Strategy: Comprehension (Decode, make connections to prior knowledge, think about and control what is being read) Click here to start reading online
To download MP3s, classroom support material, and printable PDFs, see individual chapters: (Selections adapted from the original text)
- "Rene Descartes"
- "Isaac Barrow"
- "John Wallis"
- "William, Viscount Brouncker"
- "James Gregory"
- "Bonaventura Cavalieri"
- "Christian Huygens"
- "Blaise Pascal"
- "Brook Taylor"
- "John Baptiste Joseph Fourier"
- "Gaspard Monge"
- "Johann Heinrich Lambert"
- "Joseph Louis Lagrange"
- "Johann Friedrich Pfaff"
- "Thomas Simpson"
- "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz"
- "The Bernoullis"
- "Some English Experimental Physicists"
- "The Introduction of Analysis into England"
- "Sir Isaac Newton"
- "French Physicists Cointemporary with Fourier and Poisson"
- "French Contemporaries of Lagrange and Laplace"
- "British Contemporaries of Newton, Taylor, Maclaurin and Simpson"
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