This history of mathematics from
prehistoric times till the 21st century
tells about mathematicians and
discoveries of each period, solutions
to mathematical problems that led to
unexpected discoveries in other fields
of knowledge and the changing anguage
of science. The authors concentrate
not only on personalities and facts,
but on the history of ideas and their
progress, including the circumference
of a circle, the π, the law π, of gravity,
the theory of relativity, Euclid’s axioms
and multidimensional Riemann spaces