1. Despite extensive research on the history of mathematics, our knowledge of the mathematical sciences in antiquity is far from complete. As an example of a critical attitude toward historical research, we recommend Otto Neugebauer, The Exact Sciences in Antiquity (Princeton University Press, 1956).
2. As an introduction to the mathematics of the ancient Greeks, we suggest the following: B. L. van der Waerden, Science Awakening (P. Noordhoff, 1954).
3. Morris Kline, Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times (Oxford University Press, 1972).
4. Morris Kline, Mathematics in the Modern World: Readings from Scientific American (W. H. Freeman and Company, 1968).
5. For scholarly accounts, we refer to the following: Moritz Cantor, Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik, vol. 1 (Leipzig: Teubner, 1894).