Acceptible Books for the Book Report

  1. Martin Davis, Engines of Logic: Mathematicians and the Origin of the Computer

  2. Jon Agar, Jon Turney (Editor), Turing and the Universal Machine : The Making of the Modern Computer
    taken by Sam Terfa.
  3. Martin Davis, Computability and Unsolvability

  4. B Belhoste, Augustin-Louis Cauchy. A Biography (New York, 1991).

  5. J V Grabiner, The Origins of Cauchy's Rigorous Calculus (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981).

  6. J Lützen, Joseph Liouville 1809-1882: Master of Pure and Applied Mathematics (New York- Berlin, 1990).

  7. Christianson, G. E. In the Presence of the Creator: Isaac Newton and His Times. New York: Free Press, 1984.

  8. De Gandt, F. Force and Geometry in Newton's Principia. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.

  9. Westfall, R. S. The Life of Isaac Newton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. taken by Heidi Sass

  10. Westfall, R. S. Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. taken by Paul Goains

  11. E Mortimer, Blaise Pascal : the life and work of a realist (London, 1959). Has passages in French that are not translated.

  12. J Benardete, Infinity (Oxford, 1964).

  13. E Maor, To infinity and beyond : A cultural history of the infinite (Boston, MA, 1987). taken by Molly Mason.

  14. R Rucker, Infinity and the mind (Princeton, N.J., 1995).

  15. N Ya Vilenkin, In search of infinity (Boston, MA, 1995). taken by Bethany Jones.

  16. Jean Dieudonne as translated by Judy Sally, History of Algebraic Geometry: An outline of the history and development of algebraic geometry.

  17. Michael Sean Mahoney, The Mathematical Career of Pierre Fermat. taken by Sarah Woods.

  18. David Foster Wallace, Everything and More: a compact history of infinity.

  19. Robin Wilson, Four Colors suffice: How the Map Problem was Solved.

  20. W.K. Buhler, Gauss A Biographical Study. New York, Springer-Verlag, 1981.

  21. B.L. van der Waerden, A History of Algebra from al-Khwarizmi to Emmy Noether. New York, Springer-Verlag, 1985.

  22. Andre Weil, Number Theory An approach through history from Hammurapi to Legendre. Boston, MA, Birkhauser, 1984. taken by Dakota Blair.

  23. Isabella Bashmakova and Galina Smirnova, The Beginnings and Evolution of Algebra. Mathematical Associaton of America, 2000. taken by Lauren Reininger.

  24. Edited by Marcia Sweet Stayer, Newton's Dream, 1988.

  25. Georges Ifrah, From One to Zero: A Universal History of Numbers. New York, Viking Penguin Press, 1985. taken by Bobby Hill.

  26. Jacob Klein as translated by Eva Brann, Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra, Dover Books, 1992.

  27. Tord Hall, Carl Friedrich Gauss, a biography, MIT Press, 1970.

  28. L.E. Maistroy, Probability A Historical Sketch, Academic Press, 1974.

  29. J. Dieudonne, History of Functional Analysis, North Holland Publishing Company, 1981

  30. A.W.F. Edwards, Pascal's Arithmetical Triangle: The Story of a Mathematical Idea.

  31. Stanislas Dehaene, Number Sense: how the mind creates mathematics, Oxford University Press, 1977. taken by Blanca Binstock

  32. Mario Livio, The Golden Ratio, Broadway Books, 2002. taken by Kathy Quint

  33. Stephen M. Stigler, The history of statistics : the measurement of uncertainty before 1900, Harvard University Press, 1986.

  34. Joseph Gies, Leonardo of Pisa and the New Mathematics of the Middle Ages, 1969.

  35. William Dunham, Euler: The Master of Us All, Dolciani Mathematical Expositions, Mathematical Association of America, 1999.

  36. Joan Fisher Box, R. A. Fisher: The life of a Scientist, Wiley series in probability and statistics, 1978. taken by Jennifer Travis.

  37. Paul J.~Nahim, An imaginay tale: the story of the square root of minus one, Princeton University Press, 1998. taken by Cynthia Bervig