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Hello, Thank you for the suggestion. Do you know if the book teaches the subject from the modern point of view, and using modern mathematical notation? I onky have algebra 2 knowledge. Thank you.

Hello, Thanks for the suggestions, but I'm trying to understand the development of mathematics, and how people made discoveries. Also, when I ws in high school, we were taught the pythagorian theorem, but we didn't have a clipue from where it was derived. Math was just the memorization of...

Hello, Thank you for the suggestions. I have seen two of Bell's book, but that's not what I need. It is the mathematics itself that I'm interested in. I just want to learn how math actipually developed, and then learn how it was applied to nature. I understand the philosphical side playsna...

Hello,I am trying to teach myself mathematics by starting with Euclid and going up to today. My only background is college algebra and high school algebra and geometry. I am 44 years old. I've read Euclid and Apollonius. I understood everything except he Appendix in the Conics book (Green Lion...