Mathematical circles adieu : a fourth collection of mathematical stories and anecdotes

Quadrant 1. The animal world, real and imaginary Primitive man Pre-Hellenic mathematics A few later Chinese stories Thales Pythagoras The Pythagorean brotherhood Pythagoreanism Plato Euclid Achimedes Eratosthenes and Apollonius Diophantus The end of the Greek period Quadrant II. Hindu mathematics Arabian mathematics The return of mathematics to Western Europe The fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries The episode of cubic and quartic equations Francois Viete Simon Stevin, John Napier, and Harry Briggs Thomas Harriot and William Oughtred Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler Gerard Desargues and Blaise Pascal Rene Descartes and Pierre de Fermat Quadrant III. Some minor stories about some minor men Pre-Newtonian versus post-Newtonian mathematics Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz The Bernoullis The small initial understanding of the calculus Bonaventura Cavalieri, Yoshida Koyu, and Seki Kowa Some lesser seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British mathematicians Some lesser seventeenth- and eighteenth-century continental mathematicians Leonhard Euler Lagrange Napoleon Bonaparte Quadrant IV. Abel and Agnesi Charles Babbage Some B's Carlyle and Legendre Mathematicians and nature lovers Clifford and Dodgson Calculating prodigies Augustus de Morgan, Albert Einstein Skipping through the F's Carl Friedrich Gauss Some little men Hamilton and Hardy Ten miscellaneous stories J. J. Sylvester and Norbert Wiener.