Taming the Infinite, the Story of Mathematics

This is a narrative history of mathematics for general readers, moving from ancient counting, geometry, and algebra through calculus, probability, and the modern abstract fields. Stewart introduces named problems and the people who worked on them: Greeks, Islamic and Indian mathematicians, early modern Europeans, and later theorists of infinity, symmetry, and computation. Chapters explain ideas in prose with light notation rather than as a classroom textbook. The book is a survey of how mathematical thought developed, not a problem set and not a biography of one mathematician.

Bound in grey cloth blocked with a metallic blue design by Stuart Daly. Silver endleaves printed with a blue pattern. Dark silver slipcase.