- Ancient Geometry and Insights into Math History
- Topics include background in Babylonian, Euclid, Al'Khwarizmi, pi, and trigonometry.
Also has recreations and java chat.
- Ancient Math Papers Restored - Thanks to new imaging
technology, part of the remains of a private library, owned by Roman statesman
and Julius Caesar's father-in-law, may now be read. These papers were original
discovered in 1752 in the town of Herculaneum.
- The Art of Renaissance Science - Discusses how
art and architecture were influenced by mathematical concepts, such as perspective.
Includes photo examples.
- Babylonian mathematics - An overview of mathematics
within this culture. Includes a description of the numerals used and a reference
to Pythagoras' theorem.
- A
Brief History of Algebra and Computing - By Oxford professor, Jonathan Bowen.
Discusses origins in ancient Greece, Arabia and England, analytical machines,
boolean algebra, and recent developments in the field.
- Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics
- Shows who coined a wide variety of commonly used terms. Organized by first letter.
- Earliest Uses of Calculus Symbols - Gives background
for notations that are commonly used like the integral and delta signs.
- Earliest Uses of Mathematical Symbols - Discusses
first known appearances of common expressions, such as operations, variables and
trigonometric functions.
- Egyptian mathematics - An overview of mathematics
in Ancient Eygpt. Includes descriptions of the numerals used and of some major
papyri.
- Glimpses of History - A poetic rendition of the
key events in the development of the field that have taken place over the years.
- Green Lion
Press - An independent book publisher specializing in source materials history
of mathematics and history of science. Includes list of publications available
and contact information.
- Highlights in the History of Algebra (1850 BC- 1889
AD) - An overview look at the progress and hindering factors in the development
of algebra in Egypt, Babylonia, Greece, India, the Arabian Penninsula, and Europe.
- Historia Matematica - A forum which provides a
virtual environment for scholarly discussion of the History of Mathematics, amongst
professionals, and non-professionals with a serious interest in the field. A bilingual
site (Spanish and English).
- History of Mathematics. - Includes classic texts
by Hilbert and Euclid (a Java enhanced version of the Elements) a chronology,
and links.
- History of Mathematics - Facets of India - Includes
history of algebra trigonometry, numerical mathematics, and geometry in this region.
- History of Mathematics: China - An overview. Includes
a chronology of mathematicians and mathematical works, online references and a
bibliography
- History of Mathematics in India - Describes Indian
mathematicians such as Aryabhatta - who modelled the solar system, Bhaskar, Varahamira,
and others who made important contributions in the fields of trigonometry, algebra,
and classical analysis.
- History of Modern Algebra - Topics include the
contribution of David Hilbert, the origins of Emmy Noether's work, the spread
and development of this field in Europe and the US, as well as modern algebra
in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Will take place at Mathematical
Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) on 21-25 April 2003 in Berkeley, CA, USA.
- History
of Polynomial Equations - History of quartic, cubic, quantic and quintic polynomials
and their solutions. Also contains online solver for the named polynomials.
- India's Contribution to Ancient Mathematics -
Discusses the nation's early development of geometric concepts, algorithms, algebraic
ideas and the idea of zero.
- MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive - Topics
are presented by topic areas, date, or mathematicians. Includes timeline and website
search engine.
- Math
is Radical - Math History Posters - The history of mathematics from 8,000
BC to modern times, divided into poster sets. Categories include regions, eras,
math topics & mathematicans.
- MathWorld: History - Descriptions and links relating
to various historical problems and topics in mathematics.
- Mechanical Aids to Computation and the Development
of Algorithms - Article summarizing and illustrating early methods of counting
and representing of numbers.
- Mechanical Aids to Computation and the Development
of Algorithms - Notes to Dr. Paul E. Dunne's math history lecture, with images.
- Mechanical Calculators Prior to the 19th Century
- Explains the development and motivation for creating calculating machines.
- Mesopotamian Mathematics - 8000 B.C. to 364 A.D.
- Discusses the development of numbers, addition tables, exercise problems and
solutions for quadratic equations in one of oldest known civilizations.
- Original Documents on the History of Calculators
- Contains HTML versions of some original documents related to the history of
calculators.
- The Princeton Mathematics Community in the 1930s
- An oral history project with supporting on-line documents and links.
- Renaissance Mathematics - Discusses the technological,
commercial and political reasons for the increase in mathematical development
during this period.
- Roman Numerals and Roman Dates - Includes conversion
tables, a page on their history and usage and a page on how to write the year
1999 in Roman Numerals.
- Sketches of a History of Hypercomplex Numbers
- Detailed timeline of the development of hypercomplex numbers, from early discoveries
of complex numbers to modern developments. Includes links to biographies and complete
bibliography.
- Symbol,
Form and Number in Ancient Egypt - Includes math examples from the Rhind papyrus
and Babylonian tablets. Also, discusses early Egyptian mythology.
-
Vatican Exhibit: Ancient Mathematics - Library
of Congress. Includes articles and original document images of early Greek contributions
to the field.
- Zero:
The Biography of a Dangerous Idea - A concise and appealing look at the strangest
number in the universe. By Charles Seife.
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