For the standard math education history of math course. Taking students on a mathematical journey beginning with pre-civilization´s origins of number and culture and spanning through the 1750´s , this enlightening and absorbing survey presents both established and new interpretations with careful consideration given to the remappings, redivisions, and renarrations presented by each new body of historians. Analyzing the ancient beginnings and subsequent branches of growth in this rich, diverse, and rapidly expanding field, this text provides a foundation for understanding the core of mathematics with discussions that progress from the theoretical mathematics in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt to the emergence of higher analysis mathematics in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.