A shortest possible story, of the ideas and the rise of Mathematics, for laymen and for the experts who were not able to visualize mathematics. This book introduces, in easiest of ways, the history, reasons and underlying thoughts behind concepts in Mathematics. As mathematics fought its way through religions, civilizations and philosophical obsessions of mankind, this book tells how mathematics progressed. It gives insight and perspective on how mathematicians see the world and how one could change the thought process to see and process happenings around. Through stunning historic events behind various concepts, this history will make you understand what, why and how things happened in mathematics. It will introduce to you a 'method of inquiry' that will never let you down. Whatever your area of interest or research may be, this book will help you understand the numbers and equations that could define, in explicit terms, your view of situations and phenomenon. You will be able to understand equations that speak a thousand words. This book is for those who want to find out how we have reached this far, as mankind. It will help you find out, what meant what, when we were unable to understand mathematics during our educational careers. It will also help all those who are expert in mechanics of solving a problem, but still have a thirst to find out actual reasons and happening behind a concept in mathematics. It will introduce names and history of those the early great men who first thought of things in the most novel ways and developed methods to transcribe them. An equation is worth a thousand words!
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