Classical Algebra: Its Nature, Origins, and Uses

I actually had fun writing this book, and if number theory and geometry had equally uncomplicated “classical” histories, I’d write two more matching books exploring them. But they don’t, and I don’t have enough time left in my life to sort through them. What I wanted to say about this subject, I said in the book, so nothing remains except to put up links to the pages that need to be done over to remove misprints. There were three misprints and a small error, but one of the misprints infected the table of contents, so here are the five pages, as corrected: