Ebook: 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.