NORTON HISTORY OF THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES, THE - THE RAINBOW OF MATHEMATICS

From zero to infinity, mathematics has always been more about thoughts than thinkers. Professor Ivor Grattan-Guinness has chosen to focus on concepts, rather than the geniuses who first articulated them, in 'The Norton History of the Mathematical Sciences', and this new retelling brings a freshness to what had formerly seemed a dry subject. He certainly hasn't neglected great mathematicians--Pythagoras and Ramanujan each get their due--but his real heroes are number theory, algebra, and their cousins.