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This text provides a foundation for understanding the core of mathematics with discussions that progress from the theoretical mathematics in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt to the emergence of higher analysis mathematics in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. *Opens with a reflective narrative on the nature and roots of mathematics and a look at some of our more important historiographical issues. *Considers mathematics before civilization with examinations of the Neolithic Revolution and writing and metrology in ancient Sumer. *Traces the science from proto- to theoretical mathematics. *Provides a broad survey of mathematics progression in the Islamic world, Latin West, and Maya America from the Middle Ages to 1500. *Concludes with a discussion of the scientific revolution, delving into such areas as the age of absolutism, the culture of science, inventions of differential and fluxional calculus and algebra, number theory and probability.

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