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A RECENT number of the American Mathematical Monthly (56, No. 1, Pt. 2, pp. 114 ; University of Buffalo, N.Y. ; 1 dollar), entitled "Outline of the History of Mathematics" by R. C. Archibald, containsia Very remarkable synopsis of the history of mathematics, beginning with the Babylonians and Egyptians, and proceeding to the Greeks, then to Hindu, Arabic and Persian mathematics, and thence to European mathematics to 1600 A.D. Following this are sections dealing with the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and later. The literature list and notes and the index of names at the end are most helpful to anyone consulting the book.
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Outline of the History of Mathematics. Nature 164, 1034 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/1641034b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1641034b0