Acceptible Books for the Book Report
- Martin Davis,
Engines of Logic: Mathematicians and the Origin of the Computer
- Jon Agar, Jon Turney (Editor),
Turing and the Universal Machine : The Making of the Modern Computer
taken by Sam Terfa.
- Martin Davis, Computability and Unsolvability
- B Belhoste, Augustin-Louis Cauchy. A Biography (New York, 1991).
- J V Grabiner, The Origins of Cauchy's Rigorous Calculus
(Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981).
- J Lützen, Joseph Liouville 1809-1882: Master of Pure and Applied
Mathematics (New York- Berlin, 1990).
- Christianson, G. E. In the Presence of the Creator:
Isaac Newton and His
Times. New York: Free Press, 1984.
- De Gandt, F. Force and Geometry in Newton's Principia. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 1995.
- Westfall, R. S. The Life of Isaac Newton. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1994. taken by Heidi Sass
- Westfall, R. S. Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1988. taken by
Paul Goains
- E Mortimer, Blaise Pascal : the life and work of a realist
(London, 1959).
Has passages in French that are not translated.
- J Benardete, Infinity (Oxford, 1964).
- E Maor, To infinity and beyond : A cultural history of
the infinite (Boston,
MA, 1987). taken by Molly Mason.
- R Rucker, Infinity and the mind (Princeton, N.J., 1995).
- N Ya Vilenkin, In search of infinity (Boston, MA, 1995).
taken by Bethany Jones.
- Jean Dieudonne as translated by Judy Sally, History of Algebraic
Geometry: An outline of the history and development of algebraic geometry.
- Michael Sean Mahoney, The Mathematical Career of Pierre Fermat.
taken by Sarah Woods.
- David Foster Wallace, Everything and More: a compact history of infinity.
- Robin Wilson, Four Colors suffice: How the Map Problem was Solved.
- W.K. Buhler, Gauss A Biographical Study. New York, Springer-Verlag, 1981.
- B.L. van der Waerden, A History of Algebra from al-Khwarizmi to
Emmy Noether.
New York, Springer-Verlag, 1985.
- Andre Weil, Number Theory An approach through history from Hammurapi
to Legendre. Boston, MA, Birkhauser, 1984.
taken by Dakota Blair.
- Isabella Bashmakova and Galina Smirnova, The Beginnings and Evolution of
Algebra. Mathematical Associaton of America, 2000.
taken by Lauren Reininger.
- Edited by Marcia Sweet Stayer, Newton's Dream, 1988.
- Georges Ifrah, From One to Zero: A Universal History of Numbers.
New York, Viking Penguin Press, 1985. taken by
Bobby Hill.
- Jacob Klein as translated by Eva Brann, Greek Mathematical Thought and
the Origin of Algebra, Dover Books, 1992.
- Tord Hall, Carl Friedrich Gauss, a biography, MIT Press, 1970.
- L.E. Maistroy, Probability A Historical Sketch, Academic Press, 1974.
- J. Dieudonne, History of Functional Analysis, North Holland Publishing
Company, 1981
- A.W.F. Edwards, Pascal's Arithmetical Triangle: The Story of a
Mathematical Idea.
- Stanislas Dehaene, Number Sense: how the mind creates mathematics,
Oxford University Press, 1977. taken by Blanca Binstock
- Mario Livio, The Golden Ratio, Broadway Books, 2002.
taken by Kathy Quint
- Stephen M. Stigler, The history of statistics : the measurement of
uncertainty before 1900, Harvard University Press, 1986.
- Joseph Gies, Leonardo of Pisa and the New Mathematics of the Middle Ages,
1969.
- William Dunham, Euler: The Master of Us All, Dolciani Mathematical
Expositions, Mathematical Association of America, 1999.
- Joan Fisher Box, R. A. Fisher: The life of a Scientist, Wiley series in
probability and statistics, 1978. taken by Jennifer
Travis.
- Paul J.~Nahim, An imaginay tale: the story of the square root of minus
one, Princeton University Press, 1998.
taken by Cynthia Bervig