Mathematics Made Difficult

"There was a time when every bookshop displayed a selection of soporific tracts expounding the principle that mathematics could be made easy. All that is now past, and the idea that mathematics really is difficult has regained its freedom. [author's] pioneering opus [book title] is the handbook of the new liberation."--Jacket Covers all aspects of life in early Greece, with abundant illustrations and an emphasis on the Greeks' role as the founders of Western civilization and culture