brief Introduction of the content
The first edition of history of mathematics 1968, revised edition 199 1. Although it has a long history, it is not out of date as a mathematical historical material. This is like the characteristics of mathematics: only mathematics, no major changes-only expansion. For example, once the Greeks developed deduction, as far as what they did was right, and they will always be right. Euclid is incomplete, and his work has been greatly expanded, but it doesn't need to be corrected. His theorems, all theorems, are valid today.
This book condenses the development of mathematics for thousands of years into this chronicle. From the Greeks to Godel, mathematics has been brilliant, celebrities have emerged in large numbers, and the ebb and flow of ideas can be seen everywhere. Moreover, although the author traces the development of mathematics in Europe, he has not ignored the contributions of Chinese civilization, Indian civilization and Arab civilization. There is no doubt that this book is (and will always be) a classic one-volume historical work on mathematics and mathematicians who created this subject. This book is both academic and readable, which can be used as a good introduction to this subject and a good reference book.
Brief introduction of the author
Karl Boyer (1906~ 1976) is an outstanding mathematical historian and an academician of the International Institute of the History of Science. 1939 received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, 1952 served as a professor of mathematics at Brooklyn College, and 1957~ 1958 served as the vice chairman of the science history Society in the United States. He mainly studies the history of mathematics and science. His main works are History of Calculus Concept, History of Analytic Geometry and Rainbow: From Myth to Mathematics.
[Introduction to revision]
Uta C. Merzbach (1933 ~), Ph.D. in the history of mathematics and science at Harvard University, honorary curator of the Smithsonian Institution's mathematics library, and author of "One Hundred Years of American Mathematics" and "Biography of Gauss".