This 2003 book contains portrayals of sixty mathematicians, which collectively convey how mathematics developed into its modern form.

Ioan James introduces and profiles sixty mathematicians from the era when mathematics was freed from its classical origins to develop into its modern form. The

Photographs accompanied by autobiographical text written by each mathematician.

In this accessible and illuminating study of how the science of mathematics developed, a veteran math researcher and educator looks at the ways in which our evo

The book analyzes the mathematical tablets from the private collection of Martin Schoyen. It includes analyses of tablets which have never been studied before.