TY - BOOK AU - Berlinski,David TI - Infinite ascent: a short history of mathematics SN - 067964234X : HRD AV - QA21 .B54 2005 U1 - 510/.9 22 PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - Modern Library KW - Mathematics KW - History KW - Popular works KW - Philosophy KW - Mathematicians N1 - Includes index N2 - Traces the history of mathematics over the course of 2,500 years, profiling ten important developments and figures, including Pythagoras, Euclid, Descartes, Leibniz, and Cantor ER -