Mathematics

Bottazzini, Umberto. Il flauto di Hilbert. Turin: UTET, 1990.

Cajori, Florian. A History of Mathematical Notations. 2 vols. La Salle, Ill., and Chicago: Open Court, 1928–1929.

Cantor, Moritz. Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik. 4 vols. Leipzig, Germany: Teubner, 1899–1908. Classic source of the history of mathematics to 1799.

Chabert, Jean-Luc, et al., eds. A History of Algorithms: From the Pebble to the Microchip. Translated by Chris Weeks. Berlin and New York: Springer, 1999. French original, 1994.

Cooke, Roger. The History of Mathematics: A Brief Course. New York: Wiley, 1997.

Dauben, Joseph W., ed. The History of Mathematics from Antiquity to the Present: A Selective Bibliography. Rev. ed. New York: Garland, 1985. Lewis, Albert, ed. The History of Mathematics: A Selective Bibliography. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, 2000. In CD ROM format.

Dauben, Joseph W., and Scriba J. Christoph, eds. Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development. Basel, Switzerland, and Boston: Birkhaüser, 2002.

Dieudonné, Jean, ed. Abrégé d'histoire des mathématiques 1700–1900. 2 vols. Paris: Hermann, 1978. Includes a few parts on pure mathematics.

Dold, Yvonne, et al., eds. From China to Paris: 2000 Years Transmission of Mathematical Ideas. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2002.

Folkerts, Menso, Eberhard Knobloch, and Karin Reich. Mass, Zahl, und Gewicht. 2nd ed. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2001. Much elaborated exhibition catalog.

Goldstein, Catherine, Jeremy Gray, and Jim Ritter, eds. L'Europe mathématique: histoires, mythes, identités. Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1996.

Gottwald, Siegfried, Hans-Joachim Ilgands, and Karl-Heinz Schlote, eds. Lexikon bedeutender Mathematiker. Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut, 1990. Many short biographies.

Grattan-Guinness, I., ed. Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences. 2 vols. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Reprint, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Material up to the 1930s.

——. The Norton History of the Mathematical Sciences: The Rainbow of Mathematics. New York: Norton, 1998. Coverage until World War I.

Historia mathematica (1974–). The best single source for new historical writings.

Klein, Felix, et al., eds. Encyklopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften. 23 vols. Leipzig, Germany: Teubner, 1898–1935.

Kline, Morris. Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972.

Kramer, Edna E. The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics. New York: Hawthorn, 1970.

May, Kenneth O. Bibliography and Research Manual of the History of Mathematics. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973.

Montucla, Jerome E. Histoire des mathématiques. 2nd ed. 4 vols. Vols. 3–4 edited by J. J. Lalande. Paris: Agasse, 1799–1802. Reprint, Paris: Blanchard, 1968.

Pier, Jean-Paul, ed. Development of Mathematics 1900–1950. Basel, Switzerland, and Boston: Birkhäuser, 1994. This and the follow-up volume focus mostly on pure mathematics.

——. Development of Mathematics 1950–2000. Basel, Switzerland, and Boston: Birkhäuser, 2000.

Roche, John J. The Mathematics of Measurement: A Critical History. London: Athlone Press, 1998.

Scriba, C. J., and P. Schreiber. 5000 Jahre Geometrie. Geschichte, Kulturen, Menschen. Berlin and New York: Springer, 2000.