Archibald, R. C.,
Outline of the History of Mathematics
, Buffalo: Slaught Memorial Papers of the Mathematical Association of America, 1949. (Especially valuable for a very extensive bibliography.)
Ball,W. W. Rouse,
A Short Account of the History of Mathematics
, London: Macmillan, 1888. (One of the most popular histories of mathematics; obsolescent, but still of interest. It appeared in a 6th ed. in 1915 and was reprinted as a Dover paperback in 1960.)
Cajori, Florian,
A History of Mathematics
, 2nd ea., New York: Macmillan, 1919. (The most ambitious single volume source in English.)
Cajori, Florian,
A History of Mathematical Notations
, Chicago: Open Court, 19281929, 2 vols. (A definitive work on the subject.)
Chace, A. B., L. S. Bull, H. P. Manning, and R. C. Archibald, eds.,
The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus,
Oberlin, Ohio: 1927 1929,2 vols. (This contains a comprehensive bibliography of works on Egyptian mathematics published in the interval from 1706 through 1927, as well as an extensive general account of Egyptian mathematics.)
Eves, Howard,
An Introduction to the History of Mathematics
, rev. ea., New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964. (A notably successful textbook.)
Newman, James, ea.,
The World of Mathematics,
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956, 4 vols. (Includes much material on the history of mathematics.)
Read, C. B., “Articles on the History of Mathematics: A Bibliography of Articles Appearing in Six Periodicals,”
School Science and Mathematics
, 1959, pp. 689717. (Especially useful for introductory material.)
Schaaf, W. L.,
A Bibliography of Mathematical Education
, Forest Hills, N. Y.: Stevinus Press, 1941. (An index of periodical literature since 1920 containing more than four thousand items.)
Scott, J. F.,
A History of Mathematics
, London: Taylor and Francis, 1958. (Good on British mathematicians, but notuptodate on the preHellenic period.)
Smith, D. E.,
History of Mathematics
, Boston: Ginn, 19231925, 2 vole.; Dover Publications, Inc., paperback, New York, 1958. (Still very useful for biographical details, especially dates of birth and death, and for elementary aspects of mathematics.)
Stahl, W. H.,
Roman Science
, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1962. (A devastating comparison of Roman Science with that of Greece is presented.)
Struik, D. J.,
A Concise History of Mathematics
, 3rd ea., New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1967. (Quite brief, but reliable and on a very scholarly level, with many references.)
Van der Waerden, B. L.,
Science Awakening
, trans. by Arnold Dresden, New York: Oxford University Press, 1961. (An account of preHellenic and Greek mathematics, very attractively illustrated.)