This well-illustrated book, by two established historians of school mathematics, documents Thomas Jefferson’s quest, after 1775, to introduce a form of decima
This book tells one of the greatest stories in the history of school mathematics. Two of the names in the title—Samuel Pepys and Isaac Newton—need no introd
This book presents a history of mathematic between 1607 and 1865 in that part of mainland North America which is north of Mexico but excludes the present-day Ca
This is the first truly comprehensive and thorough history of the development of mathematics and a mathematical community in the United States and Canada. This
This is the first truly comprehensive and thorough history of the development of mathematics and a mathematical community in the United States and Canada. This