Stamping through Mathematics

Early Mathematics.- Egypt.- Greek Geometry.- Plato’s Academy.- Euclid and Archimedes.- Greek Astronomy.- Mathematical Recreations.- China.- India.- Mayans and Incas.- Early Islamic Mathematics.- The Middle Islamic Period.- Late Islamic Mathematics.- The Middle Ages.- The Growth of Learning.- Renaissance Art.- Go and Chess.- The Age of Exploration.- Map-Making.- Globes.- Navigational Instruments.- Nicolaus Copernicus.- The New Astronomy.- Calendars.- Calculating Numbers.- Seventeenth-Century France.- Isaac Newton.- Reactions to Newton.- Continental Mathematics.- Halley’s Comet.- Longitude.- The New World.- France and the Enlightenment.- The French Revolution.- The Liberation of Geometry.- The Liberation of Algebra.- Statistics.- China and Japan.- Russia.- Eastern Europe.- Mathematical Physics.- The Nature of Light.- Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.- Quantum Theory.- The Twentieth Century.- The Birth of Computing.- The Development of Computing.- The International Scene.- Mathematics and Nature.- Twentieth-Century Painting.- The Geometry of Space.- Mathematical Games.- Mathematics Education.- Metrication.- Mathematical Shapes.