Contents
Everything in the book, in reading order. The story is Part I; everything after it is reference you can dip into in any order.
Before the story
Part I. The story
- Chapter 1. Two problems, and why they turned out to be one 3 min
- Chapter 2. Greece: a method that could check, but could not find 9 min
- Chapter 3. Elsewhere: the parts most textbooks skip 16 min
- Chapter 4. Medieval Europe: somebody invents the graph 5 min
- Chapter 5. The seventeenth century: everybody gets close 20 min
- Chapter 6. Newton 20 min
- Chapter 7. Leibniz 9 min
- Chapter 8. The war 8 min
- Chapter 9. The eighteenth century: attacked, defended, and put to work 21 min
- Chapter 10. The nineteenth century: making it true 15 min
- Chapter 11. The people history skipped 13 min
- Chapter 12. Calculus now 9 min
Part II. The master timeline
- The master timeline
- Antiquity to 500 CE
- 500 to 1400: the wider world and the medieval schools
- 1400 to 1637: Kerala, print, and the algebraic turn
- 1637 to 1665: the race begins
- 1665 to 1687: Newton and Leibniz
- 1688 to 1734: publication, textbooks, and the war
- 1734 to 1799: attack, repair, and the Enlightenment
- 1800 to 1872: the age of rigor
- 1873 to 1913: measure, set theory, and the modern integral
- 1914 to the present: vindication and the machine age
Part III. The reference shelf
- Appendix A. People register
- Appendix B. Symbols, words, and eponyms
- Appendix C. Pronunciation quick reference
- Appendix D. Whose name is on it, and who did the work
- Appendix E. Worked mathematics, re-derived and checked in code
- Appendix F. Disagreements between sources
- Appendix G. Stories that check out, and stories that do not
- Appendix H. Image catalog and rights
- Appendix I. Where each story goes in your two textbooks
- Appendix J. Bibliography
- Appendix K. What could not be verified, and what to request
- Glossary