【内容提要】
本书以英汉结合的方式，精选了数学领域中优秀的英文原著，并配以相应的词汇解析、参考译文以及阅读练习.读者既能更好地掌握数学专业间汇，又能通过阅读文章，增强英文学习能力，提高英语学习水平.
本书适合高中师生，以及高等院校数学及相关专业的大学生参考阅读.
【目 录】
选读1 MATHEMATICS COMES FROM PRACTICE//1
参考译文数学来自实践//5
阅读练习1 Problem: Find All Divisors of 144//6
阅读练习2 Mathematics of Patterns：Number Theory//7
选读2 LANGUAGE OF MATHEMATICS//19
参考译文数学的语言//21
阅读练习1 Definition (Ⅰ)//22
阅读练习2 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz(1646—1716)//23
选读3 MEASUREMENT//27
参考译文 度量//33
阅读练习1 Problem：What is D(200)？//34
阅读练习2 The Golden Rectangle//36
边读4 THE CIRCLE-MEASUREMENTS BY THEANCIENT CHINESE MATHEMATICIANS//43
参考译文 古代中国数学家对圆的量度//49
阅读练习1 Finite Sequences and Series-Geometric Serics and Their Sums//50
阅读练习2 Archimedes (287 B.C.—212B.C.)//52
选读5 WHY DO WE COUNT THINGS IN GROUPS OFTEN//57
参考译文 为什么我们要按十个一组来计数东西//60
阅读练习1 The Fields of Mathematics//61
阅读练习2 Divisibility//65
选读6 COUNTING AND MEASURING IN OLDTIMES//70
参考译文 古代的计算和测量//74
阅读练习1 To Prove an Inequality by the Geometrical Methods//75
阅读练习2 Geometry of Size and Form//77
选读7 EQUATION//103
参考译文 方程//106
阅读练习1 Imaginary and Complex Numbers//107
阅读练习2 Albert Einstein(1879—1955)//108
选读8 THE USE OF EQUATIONS//116
参考译文 方程的用处//118
阅读练习1 The Dudley Triangle//119
阅读练习2 Variations on a Theme-Multiplication//21
选读9 RADICALS//130
参考译文 根式//133
阅读练习1 Permutations and Combinations//134
阅读练习2 Constructing Even Order Magic Squares//136
选读10 IRRATIONAL EQUATIONS//145
参考译文 无理方程//150
阅读练习1 Definition (11)//152
阅读练习2 Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777—1855)//153
选读11 IMAGINARIES//165
参考译文 虚数//169
阅读练习1 Definition (111)//170
阅读练习2 Tessellations//173
选读12 LOGARITHMS//179
参考译文 对数//182
阅读练习1 The Dream -Worms of Atlantis//184
阅读练习2 Mathematics In Nature//187
选读13 GEOMETRY AND GEOMETRICALTERMS//194
参考译文 几何和几何术语//197
阅读练习1 The Inaccessible Angle//198
阅读练习2 Quincunx//203
选读14 TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS ANDSOLUTION OF RIGHT TRIANGLES//213
参考译文 三角函数和直角三角形的解//216
阅读练习1 Regular Polyhedra//218
阅读练习2 The Changing Ways of Mathematics//223
选读15 GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OFTRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS//235
参考译文 三角函数的图形表示//238
阅读练习1 Spidery Math//240
阅读练习2 Constructing the Parabola//243
