This book comprises five parts. The first three contain ten historical essays on important topics: number theory, calculus/analysis, and proof, respectively. Part four deals with several historically oriented courses, and Part five provides biographies of five mathematicians who played major roles in the historical events described in the first four parts of the work.
Each of the first three parts on number theory, calculus/analysis, and proof begins with a survey of the respective subject and is followed in more depth by specialized themes. Among the specialized themes are: Fermat as...