Editing History of mathematics (section)

== Further reading ==

===General===
* {{cite book
 | last = Aaboe
 | first = Asger
 | author-link = Asger Aaboe
 | year = 1964
 | title = Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics
 | publisher = Random House
 | location = New York
}}
* {{cite book
 | last = Bell
 | first = E. T.
 | author-link = Eric Temple Bell
 | title = Men of Mathematics
 | url = https://archive.org/details/menofmathematics0041bell
 | url-access = registration
 | publisher = Simon and Schuster
 | year = 1937
}}
* [[David M. Burton|Burton, David M.]] (1997). ''The History of Mathematics: An Introduction''. McGraw Hill.
* {{cite book|first=Ivor|last=Grattan-Guinness|author-link=Ivor Grattan-Guinness|title=Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press|year=2003|isbn=978-0-8018-7397-3}}
* [[Morris Kline|Kline, Morris]]. ''Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times''.
* [[Dirk Jan Struik|Struik, D. J.]] (1987). ''A Concise History of Mathematics'', fourth revised edition. Dover Publications, New York.

=== Books on a specific period ===
* {{cite book
 | last = Gillings
 | first = Richard J.
 | author-link = Richard J. Gillings
 | title = Mathematics in the Time of the Pharaohs
 | publisher = MIT Press
 | location = Cambridge, MA
 | year = 1972
}}
* {{cite book
 | last = Heath
 | first = Thomas Little
 | author-link = Thomas Little Heath
 | title = [[A History of Greek Mathematics]]
 | url = 
 | url-access = 
 | publisher = Oxford, Claredon Press
 | year = 1921
 | isbn = 
}}
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* [[Annaliese Maier|Maier, Annaliese]] (1982). ''At the Threshold of Exact Science:  Selected Writings of Annaliese Maier on Late Medieval Natural Philosophy'', edited by Steven Sargent, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. -->
* [[Bartel Leendert van der Waerden|van der Waerden, B. L.]] (1983). ''Geometry and Algebra in Ancient Civilizations'', Springer, {{ISBN|0-387-12159-5}}.

=== Books on a specific topic ===
* {{citation |first=Leo |last=Corry |title=A Brief History of Numbers  |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2015 |isbn=978-0198702597}}
* {{cite book| last = Hoffman| first = Paul| author-link = Paul Hoffman (science writer)| year = 1998| title = The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth| publisher = Hyperion| isbn = 0-7868-6362-5}}
* {{cite book| last = Menninger| first = Karl W.| author-link =  Karl Menninger (mathematics)| year = 1969| title = Number Words and Number Symbols: A Cultural History of Numbers| publisher = MIT Press| isbn = 978-0-262-13040-0}}
* {{cite book| last = Stigler| first = Stephen M.| author-link = Stephen Stigler| year = 1990| title = The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900| publisher = Belknap Press | isbn = 978-0-674-40341-3}}