Without Words Mathematical Puzzles to Confound and Delight

Revised by Uta C. Merzbach1. Origins 2. Egypt3. Mesopotamia4. Ionia and the Pythagoreans5. The Heroic Age6. The Age of Plato and Aristotle7. Euclid of Alexandria8. Archimedes of Syracuse9. Apollonius of Perga10. Greek Trigonometry and Mensuration11. Revival and Decline of Greek Mathematics12. China and India 13. The Arabic Hegemony 14. Europe in the Middle Ages 15. The Renaissance 16. Prelude to Modern Mathematics17. The Time of Fermat and Descartes18. A Transitional Period 19. Newton and Leibni...