Quite Right

Cover --
Preface --
Contents --
1. The Unwritten Story --
The story of mathematics --
Fairness in the age of the hunter-gatherers --
Counting without numbers --
The origins of money --
Mysterious moonshine --
2. The Dawn of Civilization --
Writing and counting --
Operating with numbers --
Fair division in the age of arithmetic --
Measuring length and area --
Measuring quantities --
The origins of units of measurement --
The elements of finance --
3. From Tax and Trade to Theorems --
The coming of coins --
Practical mathematics --
The new mathematics --
Problems of measurement. Proving results about whole numbers --
4. The Age of Algorithms --
How to do arithmetic --
Advances in arithmetic --
The uses of arithmetic --
The north-west frontier --
The art of al-jabr --
The origins of symbolic algebra --
5. The End of the Middle Ages --
Merchants and mathematicians --
Interest upon interest, and more ... --
Solving equations --
Counting and arranging --
How to keep a secret: the medieval way --
6. A New World of Mathematics --
Measurement and calculation --
To the limit --
Algebra and geometry combine --
Back to the future: Archimedes --
Fermat and the new algebra. One small step ... --
More about series --
7. Mathematics Ascending --
Calculus, coinage, and controversy --
Logarithms and exponents --
Numbers, perfect and prime --
New kinds of numbers --
All kinds of wonderful things --
To the limit, carefully --
8. Taking a Chance --
Great expectations --
Games and strategies --
The law of large numbers --
Statistics --
9. Modelling and Measuring --
Mathematics in context --
Measuring value and utility --
The problems of democracy --
The measure of the world --
10. Mathematics and Money in the Age of Information --
Financial speculation. A model of how prices change --
Forms of money --
Money, information, and uncertainty --
Measuring information --
11. Can Mathematics Keep Us Safe? --
The search for security --
Some things are easy, but some are not --
How to keep a secret: the modern way --
Can mathematics keep us safe? --
Notes --
Index.