What I have intended with this publication is to inspire a love and/or appreciation of mathematics for both young and old. Much effort has been given to developing an intuitive feel for both results and methods.  I have emphasized that technology such as going to the moon, or the development of wireless communications, could not have been done without mathematics. The 'Method of Exhaustion' of Eudoxus has been used to convince the reader of the resulting formulas derived, and more to the point, to generate a certain comfort level with infinity.  The methods of 'Proof by Contradiction' and the method of 'Mathematical Induction' have been used.  The notion of proving something, forevermore, and for all cases, is relatively new - perhaps 2500 years. Before that, rules of thumb were satisfactory. The book starts slowly at an intuitive geometric level and picks up speed later.  Area and volume formulas are derived. Two chapters give a brief history of the development of numbers and the advances in arithmetic. The last three chapters reach trigonometry, analytical geometry, and calculus. The appendix hurries through additional topics. An important theme in the book is an attempt to answer a question I have heard so many times in my life: "What good is math anyway?"

Math & Math History Book for High School Math Teachers & Math Lovers; 6"x9"