What is the most concise, yet filling history of mathematics that can be learned in a week?
I really know nothing of the history of mathematics, and I have learn as much as I can about it in a week for a competition. I don’t really have time to get a book from a library. The competition is multiple choice, so is it probably going to be questions involving names, dates, and what people did. I don’t know what specifically it is on. Is there a resource that gives a concise history while telling a lot that I can learn in a week about math history?
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as always, wiki is a nice source for some of these things. I would start with searching algebra, geometry, calculus, etc. then once you get a feel for who invented each then search names like Euler, Gauss, Newton, Leibniz, Galois, Pascal, Cauchy, Liouville, etc. just to name a few of the big ones. even Aristotle is important here because the Greeks wrote the book on geometry (in many ways). This is a quick fix but I know there are classes offered on history of mathematics and, therefore, texts available out there. In your predicament i would utilize some online resources and hope for an easy test :-/
Cliff Notes version of Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time.”