A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Short Account of the History of Mathematics, by W. W. Rouse Ball This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: A Short Account of the History of Mathematics Author: W. W. Rouse Ball Release Date: May 28, 2010 [EBook #31246] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MATHEMATICS *** A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS BY W. W. ROUSE BALL FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC. NEW YORK This new Dover edition, rst published in 1960, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the author’s last revision|the fourth edition which appeared in 1908. International Standard Book Number: 0-486-20630-0 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 60-3187 Manufactured in the United States of America Dover Publications, Inc. 180 Varick Street New York, N. Y. 10014 Produced by Greg Lindahl, Viv, Juliet Sutherland, Nigel Blower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber’s Notes A small number of minor typographical errors and inconsistencies have been corrected. References to gures such as \on the next page" have been replaced with text such as \below" which is more suited to an eBook.