pt. I. Foundations. 1. The first geometers
pt. II. The golden age. 4. Pythagoras
pt. III. Enlightenment. 7. François Viète
pt. IV. A strange new world. 10. Giovanni Saccheri
12. Nicolai Lobachevski and János Bolyai
pt. V. New directions. 13. Bernhard Riemann