Front Cover -- Episodes From the Early History of Mathematics -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Babylonian Mathematics -- 1.1 Sources -- 1.2 The Babylonian Number System. A Multiplication Table -- 1.3 The Babylonian Number System. A Table of Reciprocals -- 1.4 Positional Number Systems -- 1.5 Babylonian Arithmetic -- 1.6 Three Babylonian Mathematical Texts -- 1.7 Summary -- Chapter 2. Early Greek Mathematics and Euclid's Construction of the Regular Pentagon -- 2.1 Sources -- 2.2 Greek Mathematics before Euclid -- 2.3 Euclid's Elements -- 2.4 Euclid's Construction of the Regular Pentagon -- Chapter 3. Three Samples of Archimedean Mathematics -- 3.1 Archimedes' Life -- 3.2 Archimedes' Works -- 3.3 Constructions of Regular Polygons -- 3.4 Archimedes' Trisection of an Angle -- 3.5 Archimedes' Construction of the Regular Heptagon -- 3.6 Volume and Surface of a Sphere According to The Method -- Chapter 4. Ptolemy's Construction of a Trigonometric Table -- 4.1 Ptolemy and The Almaugest -- 4.2 Ptolemy's Table of Chords and Its Uses -- 4.3 Ptolemy's Construction of the Table of Chords -- Appendix: Ptolemy's Epicyclic Models -- Solutions to Problems -- Bibliography -- Back Cover.