Reading List

1. Jacqueline Stedall, Mathematics emerging: a sourcebook 1540-1900 (Oxford University Press, 2008).
2. Victor Katz, A history of mathematics (brief edition) (Pearson Addison Wesley, 2004), or:
3. Victor Katz, A history of mathematics: an introduction (third edition) (Pearson Addison Wesley, 2009).
4. Benjamin Wardhaugh, How to read historical mathematics (Princeton, 2010).
5. Jacqueline Stedall, The history of mathematics: a very short introduction (Oxford University Press, 2012).

1. John Fauvel and Jeremy Gray (eds), The history of mathematics: a reader, (Macmillan, 1987).

Further suggestions of additional reading on particular topics will be given throughout the lecture course.