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The history of mathematics: an introduction / David M. Burton.  Boston: McGraw-Hill, c2003.  *R-SIBL QA21 .B96. A chronological narrative of the development of mathematics for the past 5000 years aimed for the college graduate with sample problems and biographies included.

A history of mathematics / Jeff Suzuki. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, c2002. *R-SIBL QA21 .S975.  The origins and creative processes of elementary mathematics which includes numeration, arithmetic, geometry, algebra, calculus, real analysis, probability, statistics, number theory, differential equations, and more.

The rainbow of mathematics : a history of the mathematical sciences / Ivor Grattan-Guinness. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000. *R-SIBL QA21 .G695.  A history of mathematics from the “remote past” to the Great War of 1914-18.