History of Mathematics

This book, according to the author himself, - "Time travel from the Babylonian" sixties" to fractals and blurred logic. Such "from ... and to ..." in "Mathematics history" a lot. From the mysterious counting sticks of primitive people to the first "calculator" - Abaca. From the ancient-scale number system to the first practical cards. From the ancient Greek astronomers to the painters of the Middle Ages. From illustrated medieval treatises to the mathematical twentieth century surrealism ...
But the book tells not only about the history of science. The reader will learn a lot of interesting things about the take-offs and falls of ancient civilizations, about modern astronomy, on the art of encryption and tricks of codes, about military strategy, navigation and, of course, about contemporary art, which will certainly include computer graphics and incomprehensible fractal patterns