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BOOKS OF REFERENCE.
The following books, pamphlets, and articles have been used in the preparation of this history. Reference to any of them is made in the text by giving the respective number. Histories marked with a star are the only ones of which extensive use has been made.
- Günther, S. Ziele und Resultate der neueren Mathematisch-historischen Forschung. Erlangen, 1876.
- Cajori, F. The Teaching and History of Mathematics in the U.S. Washington, 1890.
- * Cantor, Moritz. Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik. Leipzig. Bd. I., 1880; Bd. II., 1892.
- Epping, J. Astronomisches aus Babylon. Unter Mitwirkung von P. J. R. Strassmaier. Freiburg, 1889.
- Bretschneider, C. A. Die Geometrie und die Geometer vor Euklides. Leipzig, 1870.
- * Gow, James. A Short History of Greek Mathematics. Cambridge, 1884.
- * Hankel, Hermann. Zur Geschichte der Mathematik im Alterthum und Mittelalter. Leipzig, 1874.
- * Allman, G. J. Greek Geometry from Thales to Euclid. Dublin, 1889.
- De Morgan, A. "Euclides" in Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
- Hankel, Hermann. Theorie der Complexen Zahlensysteme. Leipzig, 1867.
- Whewell, William. History of the Inductive Sciences.
- Zeuthen, H. G. Die Lehre von den Kegelschnitten im Alterthum. Kopenhagen, 1886.
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