Abstract
History in the mathematics classroom The history of mathematics in a large nutshell Sketches: 1. Keeping count - writing whole numbers 2. Reading and writing arithmetic - where the symbols came from 3. Nothing becomes a number - the story of zero 4. Broken numbers - writing fractions 5. Something less than nothing? - negative numbers 6. By tens and tenths - metric measurement 7. Measuring the circle - the story of p 8. The Cossic art - writing algebra with symbols 9. Linear thinking - solving first degree equations 10. A square and things - quadratic equations 11. Intrigue in renaissance Italy - solving cubic equations 12. A cheerful fact - the Pythagorean theorem 13. A marvelous proof - Fermat's last theorem 14. On beauty bare - Euclid's plane geometry 15. In perfect shape - the Platonic solids 16. Shapes by the numbers - coordinate geometry 17. Impossible, imaginary useful - complex numbers 18. Half is better - sine and cosine 19. Strange new worlds - the non-Euclidean geometries 20. In the eye of the beholder - projective geometry 21. What's in a game - the start of probability theory 22. Making sense of data - statistics becomes a science 23. Machines that think - electronic computers 24. Beyond counting - infinity and the theory of sets What to read next Bibliography Index.
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