Tabak J. Probability and Statistics: The Science of Uncertainty

Facts on File, 2004. — 226 p. — ISBN: 0-8160-4956-4.Some types of mathematics are as old as the written word. Geometry is probably older. We have written records from cultures that arose early in world history in which we can find geometry problems and solutions. Ancient scholars were working on geometry even as they were developing a system of writing to express their geometric insights. We can also point to cultures that never developed their own written language but did develop their own arithmetic. At least in some cultures, ’rithmetic is the oldest of the three Rs.