Bøker av Frank J. Swetz

The Ladies' Diary was an almanac published in England from 1704 to 1840. Its subtitle reveals its purpose, Containing New Improvements in Arts and Sciences, and Many Entertaining Particulars: Designed for the Use and Diversion of the Fair Sex. This book unearths the story of the Diary's creation and of the community of people surrounding it.

Along the way, he tells us what various cultures knew about math and how they came to learn it, providing instructors with a wonderful way to incorporate multicultural mathematics into the middle school, high school, and college classroom.