Includes index.

Contents:
Ancient and Classical periods -- positional numbers -- quadratic equations -- rhynd papyrus -- magic squares -- Pythagoras -- irrational numbers -- zeno's paradoxes of motion -- platonic solids -- syllogistic logic -- euclid's elements -- abacus -- calculating pi -- eratosthenes' sieve -- conic sections -- trigonometry -- negative numbers -- diophantine equations -- hypatia -- Zu Chongzhi -- The Middle Ages -- zero -- algebra -- binomial theorem -- cubic equations -- fibonacci sequence -- wheat on a chessboard -- The Renaissance -- golden ratio -- mersenne primes -- rhumb lines -- equal sign and other symbology -- imaginary and complex numbers -- decimals -- logarithms -- problem of maxima -- coordinates -- area under a cycloid -- projective geometry -- pascal's triangle -- probability -- viviani's triangle theorem -- huygen's tautochrone curve -- calculus -- binary numbers -- The Enlightenment -- newton's law of motion -- law of large numbers -- euler's number -- normal distribution -- graph theory -- goldbach conjecture -- euler's identity -- algebraic resolution of equations -- Buffon's needle experiment -- fundamental theorem of algebra -- The 19th Century -- complex plane -- fourier analysis -- laplace's demon -- poisson distribution -- bessel functions -- mechanical computer -- elliptic functions -- non-euclidean geometries -- group theory -- quaternions -- catalan's conjecture -- matrices -- boolean algebra -- the möbius strip -- riemann hypothesis -- transfinite numbers -- venn diagrams -- tower of hanoi -- topology -- prime number theorem -- Modern Mathematics -- 23 problems of the 20th century -- birth of modern statistics -- logic of mathematics -- minkowski space -- taxicab numbers -- infinite monkey theorem -- emmy noether and abstract algebra -- bourbaki group -- turing machine -- benfold's law -- information theory -- six degrees of preparation -- thje butterfly effect -- fuzzy logic -- langland's program -- social mathematics -- penrose title -- fractals -- four-colored theorem -- cryptography -- finite simple groups -- proving fermat's last theorem -- providing the poincaré conjecture.