Reading List

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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).
2. June Barrow-Green, Jeremy Gray and Robin J. Wilson, The history of mathematics : a source-based approach, vol. I (Mathematical Association of America, 2019).

Further suggestions of additional reading on particular topics will be given throughout the lecture course. Moreover, the intercollegiate classes in MT and the seminars in HT will also serve as a forum in which students will be encouraged to share any interesting reading materials that they have discovered themselves.