Detailed and thorough books about the history of mathematics

Question

Regards.. i would like to ask about some high quality books about the history of mathematics. The ideal books should provide detailed and thorough history of mathematics, with good images and manuscripts.

Books available at libraries are preferred, information about the library would be useful. I appreciate some thoughts on this, thanks..

Answer 1

Dirk Struick's Source Book in Mathematics, 1200 - 1800 has the manuscripts you desire. His Concise History of Mathematics is also excellent. A readable and historiographically critical recent book is Luke Hodgkin's A History of Mathematics: from Mesopotamia to Modernity, which can be found in .pdf form. Then there are Carl Boyer's works, all canonical. His book on calculus is especially good, if this is your area of interest.

Answer 2

You can try checking out the references listed in the Wikipedia page on "History of Mathematics".

I would think most of these references / books are available at a library nearest you. If in doubt, you can just access your local library's Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) and take it from there.

Happy reading!

Answer 3

Carl B. Boyer, $\textit{A history of Mathematics}$. I'm reading it and it's very detailed (and long!).