Mathematics for the million /
by Lancelot Thomas Hogben, illustrations by J. F. Horrabin.
- First ed.
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 1939.
- xii, 648 p. : ill., tables, graphics ; 22 cm.
With hardcover
Cont.: Mathematics in remote antiquity -- The grammar of size, order, and shape -- Euclid as a springboard -- Number lore in antiquity -- The rise and decline of the Alexandrian culture -- The dawn of nothing -- Mathematics for the mariner -- The geometry of motion -- Logarithms and the search for series -- The calculus of Newton and Leibnitz -- The algebra of the chessboard -- The algebra of choice and change.
First published in 1937 and reprinted several times since, Hogben's book took everybody's worst subject and explained it in a way that made it comprehensible to the average person.