First Reading Assignment
From A Mathematician's Apology-G. H. Hardy, page 1
Chapter I (Protomathematics in the Late Age of Stone 
and in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt)
Introduction, page 7
Reading 1: From The Exact Sciences in Antiquity-O. Neugebauer
Reading 2: From the A'h-mose or Rhind Papyrus
Reading 3: Problem No. 14 of the Moscow Papyrus
Reading 4: The Ancient Hebrews and Protomathematics Based on the 
Old Testament of the Bible

Second Reading Assignment
Chapter II (The Rise of Theoretical Mathematics in Ancient Greece) 
Introduction, page 37
Biography of Proclus, page 47
Reading 5: From "The Catalog of Geometers"-Proclus
Biography of Pythagoras of Samos, page 50
Reading 7: From Book VII of the Elements: Definitions-Euclid
Reading 8: From Prior Analytics i.23 (Irrationality of the Square Root of 2)
-Aristotle
Reading 10: From Commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics 
(Arithmetic, Geometric and Harmonic Means)-Porphyry
Reading 12: From Commentary on Euclid i (Sum of the Angles of a Triangle)-Proclus
Reading 13: From Convivial Questions viii. 2. (Pythagoras' Theorem)-Plutarch
Reading 14: From On Slips in Greetings 5-Lucian




Third Reading Assignment
Chapter III (Mathematics in the West During Hellenistic and Roman Times) 
Introduction, page 91
Biography of Euclid, page 109
Reading 27: From Book I of the Elements: Definitions, Postulates, Axioms, and Propositions 1-13
Reading 28: From Book I of the Elements: Propositions 27-32 (Theory of Parallels)
Reading 29: From Book I of the Elements: Proposition 47 (Pythagorean Theorem)-Euclid
Reading 30: From Book VII of the Elements: Propositions 1 and 2 (Euclidean Algorithm)
Reading 15: From Elements X. Scholium (The Irrational or Incommensurable)-Euclid
Reading 16: From Elements X. Definitions-Euclid
Reading 31: From Book IX of the Elements: Propositions 14 (Fundamental Theorem in the Theory
of Numbers), 20 (Infinitude of Primes), and 25-30


Fourth Reading Assignment
Biography of Hippocrates, page 58
Reading 17: From Commentary on Aristotle's Physics A 2-Philoponus
Reading 18: From Commentary on Aristotle's Physics A 2 (Quadrature of Lunules)-Philoponus
(To the end of the left hand side of page 60)

Fifth Reading Assignment
Biography of Eudoxus, page 74
Reading 22: From Book V of the Elements: Definitions and Propositions 1, 7, 9, and 10 (Theory of
Proportions)-Eudoxus/Euclid  (Definitions only)
Biography of Dedekind, page 625
Reading 110: From Stetigkeit und irrationale Zahlen (Continuity, Irrational Numbers, and Dedekind
Cuts)-Richard Dedekind
Reading 23: From Book XII.2 of the Elements (Method of Approximation, the So-called Method of
Exhaustion)-Euclid

Sixth Reading Assignment
Biography of Archimedes, page 131
Reading 33: From Sphere and Cylinder I: Greeting and Assumptions-Arcimedes
Reading 34: From Sphere and Cylinder I: Propositions 33 and 34 (Surface and Volume of a
Sphere)-Archimedes
Reading 35: Measurement of a Circle: Propositions 1-3 (Approximation of Pi Using in Essence
Upper and Lower Sums)-Archimedes
Reading 36: From Quadrature of the Parabola: Introduction and Propositions 17-24-Archimedes

Seventh Reading Assignment
Biography of Eratosthenes, page 153
Reading 40: From Introduction to Arithmetic I: Chapters XII and XIII (Sieve for Finding Primes)-
Nichomachus of Gerasa
Biography of Diophantus, page 171
Reading 45: From the Dedication to Arithmetica (Algebraic Notation)-Diophantus
Reading 46: From Arithmetica (Origins of Number Theory)-Diophantus

Eighth Reading Assignment
Biography of Apollonius, page 159
Reading 42: From Conics: Introduction to Book One-Apollonius
Reading 43: From Conics: Propositions 7 and 11-Apollonius

Ninth Reading Assignment
Biography of Ptolemy, page 166
Reading 44: From the Syntaxis or Almagest i (Trigonometry: Table of Sines)-Claudius Ptolemy
Reading 7.B1, page 245 of The History of Mathematics: A Reader, 
ed. John Fauvel and Jeremy Gray, Regiomontanus on Triangles (book on reserve)
Tenth Reading Assignment
Chapter IV (Arabic Primacy with Chinese, Indian, and Maya Contributions) Introduction, page 177
Biography of al-Kwarizmi, page 199
Reading 47: From The Book of Algebra and Almucabola (Quadratic Equations in Algebra: Verbal
Form)-al-Kwarizmi
Biography of Marquis Zhang Cang, page 212
Reading 49: From a Description of the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art (Jiuzhang
suanshu)-Li Yan and Du Shiran

Eleventh Reading Assignment
Chapter V (The Medieval-Renaissance-Reformation Periods in Europe) Introduction, page 243
Biography of Leonardo of Pisa, page 250
Reading 53: From Liber abbaci (The Rabbit Problem)-Leonardo of Pisa
Biography of Oresme, page 253
Reading 54: From De configurationibus (The Latitude of Forms)-Nicole Orseme
Reading 55: From Questiones super geometriam Euclidis (The Latitude of Forms)-Nicole Oresme

Twelfth Reading Assignment
Biography of Cardano, page 261
Reading 56: From the Ars Magna-Girolamo Cardano
Biography of Viete, page 267
outside reading
Biography of Stevin, page 273
Reading 58: From De Thiende (Decimal Fractions)-Simon Stevin
Biography of Napier, page 281

Thirteenth Reading Assignment
Chapter VI (The Scientific Revolution at Its Zenith 1620-1720) Introduction, page 291
Biography of Descartes, page 326
Reading 62: From La Geometrie (Theory of Equations)-Rene Descartes
Pages 204-207 of The Geometry of Rene Descartes, translated by 
Smith and Latham (Beginning with "Let us apply it...." and ending with
 "...are the required mean proportionals.") (book on reserve)
Biography of Fermat, page 341
"On Analytic Geometry" (extract from Introduction aux Lieux Plans et Solides)
-Pierre de Fermat, pages 389-396 in A Source Book in Mathematics, 
by David Eugene Smith (book on reserve)


Fourteenth Reading Assignment
Reading 69: From "On the Transformation and Simplification of the Equations of Loci"
(Integration)-Pierre de Fermat
Reading 70: From "On a Method for the Evaluation of Maxima and Minima"-Pierre de Fermat
Biography of Leibniz, page 383
Reading 72: From "A New method for Maxima and Minima as Well as Tangents, Which is
Impeded Neither by Fractional Nor by Irrational Quantities, and a Remarkable Type of Calculus
for This"-Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Reading 73: From "Supplementum geometriae dimensoriae. . . " in Acta Eruditorum (The
Fundamental Theorem of Calculus)-Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Biography of Newton, page 395
Reading 74: From Specimens of a Universal [System of] Mathematics-Isaac Newton
Reading 75: From a Letter to Henry Oldenburg on the Binomial Series (June 13, 1676)-Isaac
Newton
Reading 76: From a Letter to Henry Oldenburg on a General Method for Finding Quadratures
(October 24, 1676)-Isaac Newton
Reading 77: From Principia Mathematica (Prime and Ultimate Ratios: The 
Theory of Limits)-Isaac
Newton (stop after Corollary of Lemma IV and begin again on page 410 
after it reads "[Text is omitted here.]".  Then read to the end.)Reading 78: From the Introduction to the Tractatus de quadratura curvarum-
Isaac Newton

Fifteenth Reading Assignment
Chapter VII (The Age of Enlightenment and the French Revolution 1720-1800) Introduction, page
429
Biography of Taylor, page 465
From Methodus Incrementorum Directa et Inversa (The Taylor Series)-Brook Taylor
Biography of Berkeley, page 469
Reading 82: From The Analyst (Criticism of the Foundations of Calculus)-George Berkeley
Biography of Maclaurin, page 475
Reading 83: From Treatise of Fluxions (On Series and Extremes)-Colin Maclaurin
Biography of d'Alembert, page 479
Reading 84: From "Differentiel", Encyclopedie, Vol. 4 (On Limits)-Jean Le-Rond d'Alembert
Biography of Euler, page 486
Reading 85: From Introductio in analysin infinitorum I (Functions, Logarithms, and Trigonometry)-
Leonhard Euler