Mathematics Archives - Topics in Mathematics - History of Mathematics

http://archives.math.utk.edu/topics/history.html

• Abacus in Various Number Systems
• The Abacus: The Art of Calculating with Beads
  ADD. KEYWORDS: History, tutorial, interactive pages
• African Mathematical Union - Commission on the History of Mathematics in Africa (AMUCHMA)
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Newsletter
• AMS's Materials Organized by Mathematical Subject Classification
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Electronic Journals, Preprints, Web Sites, Databases
• AMS--MAA Joint Archives Committee
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Lists of Collections of Papers
• Archimedes
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Archimedian Solids, Pappus, Cattle Problem, Maple
• Archimedes and the Computation of Pi
• The Art of Algebra from al-Khwarizmi to ViÈte: A Study in the Natural Selection of Ideas
  ADD. KEYWORDS: al-Khwarizmi, Diophantus of Alexandria, Cardano, Bombelli, Viète, abu-Kamil, al-Karaji, Fibonacci, Maestro Benedetto, Bibliography, History
• A Bibliography of Collected Works and Correspondence of Mathematicians
  SOURCE: Steven W. Rockey, Cornell University
• Biographies of Women Mathematicians
• Le Boulier Chinois (French)
  ADD. KEYWORDS: History, Techniques, Bibliography, Lesson Plans
• A Brief History of Algebra and Computing: An Eclectic Oxonian View
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Early English Algebra, Algebra and Analytical Engines, Boolean Algebra, Turing, Algebra of Programs
• A Chronology of Recreational Mathemtics
• A Completely Inadequate Bibliography of the History of Mathematics
• Convergence – MAA's online magazine on the history of mathematics and its use in teaching
  ADD. KEYWORDS: History of Mathematics, Articles, Book Reviews, Teaching Materials, Quotations, Calendar of Events, Problems
• Counting to Infinity
  ADD. KEYWORDS: John Wallis, Zeno of Elea, Georg Cantor
• A description of the admirable table of logarithms by J. Napier (1616)
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Copy of book
  SOURCE: Department of Mathematics, University of Nijmegen
• DOCUMENTA MATHEMATICA - Extra Volume ICM 1998 - Section: 19. History of Mathematics
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Articles
  SOURCE: DOCUMENTA MATHEMATICA, Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians
  TECHNOLOGY: Postscript and DVI readers
• Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics
• Earliest Uses of Various Mathematical Symbols
• Elementary Problems and Chinese Mathematics
• Emmy Noether, Mentors & Colleagues
• Ethnomathematics
• Ethnomathematics on the Web
  ADD. KEYWORDS: African mathematics, Native American mathematics, Math in European artifacts, Pacific Islander mathematics, African American mathematics, Latino mathematics, Asian mathematics, Middle Eastern mathematics, Mathematics and gender, Mathematics and economic class, Multicultural mathematics
  SOURCE: Ron Eglash and International Study Group on Ethnomathematics
• The Euler Project
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Translations of articles, Opera Omnia, Riemann Zeta function, Series, Probability, Number Theory
  SOURCE: Ed Sandifer, Western Connecticut State University
• Fibonacci - his rabbits and his numbers and Kepler
  ADD. KEYWORDS: History, The Golden Sectio - Aureo Section, Properties, Generating function for the Fibonacci numbers, Binet formula
  SOURCE: Keith Tognetti, University of Wollongong
  TECHNOLOGY: Adobe PDF Reader
• Fibonacci Number-Theorists
• Fields Medal
• Front for the XXX Mathematics Archive - History and Overview
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Preprints
• The Geometry of War, 1500-1750
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Museum exhibition, Gunnery, Rangefinding and Surveying, and Fortification, Troop Formations and the Telescope, Bibliography
• George Green Homepage
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Dates outlining Green's life and posthumous history, Biographical notes, Papers, References, Archival material, Bicentenary Celebrations of Green's birth
  SOURCE: L. A. Wightman, M. J. Carter
• Great Polish Mathematicians
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Warsaw School of Mathematics, Lvov School of Mathematics, Cracow School of Mathematics, Short biographies
  SOURCE: Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Greek Mathematics and its Modern Heirs
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Euclid, Archimedes, Piero della Francesca
• Hall of Great Mathematicians
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Biographies
• Henry Perigal's Monument
  SOURCE: Greg N. Frederickson, Purdue University
• Historia Matematica
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Listserv
• Historia Matematica - Archives
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Archives of Listserv
• Historia Mathematica
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Published Journal
• History of Approximation Theory (HAT)
  ADD. KEYWORDS: People, Articles, Historical Papers
  SOURCE: Allan Pinkus and Carl de Boor
• History of Compactness
• A History Of Equality
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Robert Recorde, René Descartes, Recorde's symbol for equality, Competing symbols, Descartes' symbol for equality
  SOURCE: Andrew E. Young
• History of Mathematics, David Joyce
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Regional, Bibliographies, Timelines, Hypermedia Exhibits, Books and Articles On-Line, Societies, Newsgroups
• History of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Class Projects, Ahmes, Ancient Egyptian Fractions, Remainder Problem, Jiuzhang Suanshu, Jia Xian, Qin Jiushao, The Ta-Yen Rule, Counting Board Simulator, Aryabhata, Brahmagupta, Bhaskara, Blaise Pascal, Euclid, Ada Byron King, The Countess of Lovelace
  Emy Noether, Alan Turing, Sundials, Calendars
  SOURCE: J. L. Berggren, Simon Fraser University
• History of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Rouse Ball Biographies, George Berkeley, Sir William Rowan Hamilton, George Boole, Sir Isaac Newton
• History of Mathematics
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Collection of articles, Zeno's Paradox of Motion, Archimedes and the Square Root of 3, Bertleson's Number, Euclid's Plan and Proposition 6, Legendre's Prime Number Conjecture, Mayan Numeration, The Dullness of 1729, The Helen of Mathematics, Berkeley and the Infidel, Newton's Birth Date and the Anni Mirabiles, etc.
  SOURCE: K. S. Brown
• History of Mathematics at USMA
• History of Mathematics Sources on the World Wide Web
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Teaching Resources, Course Efforts, Site Reviews
• Hypatia of Alexandria
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Bibliography, Sources, Books
• INCUNABULA, HEBRAICA & JUDAICA - Mathematics and the Sciences
  ADD. KEYWORDS: List of Tracts, Joseph Solomon Delmedigo
• Index of Ancient Greek Mathematicians and Astronomers
  
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Jules Henri Poincaré
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Biography, Chaos and the solar system, Arithmetic, intuition and logic, Philosophy of Geometry
• The Jahrbuch-project Electronic Research Archive for Mathematics (ERAM)
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Database of the "Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik", Archive of the most important mathematical publications of the period 1868 -1943.
• The Journey of the Four Colour Theorem Through Time
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Article, History,Philosophical implications
  SOURCE: Andreea S. Calude, University of Auckland and Mathematics Olympiad Learning Centre
  TECHNOLOGY: Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Legacy of R. L. Moore Project
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Biography, Discovery Learning, Moore Method, Conference, Readings, Pictures
• MacTutor History of Mathematics
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Chronologies
• Marin Mersenne
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Biographies, Mersenne Numbers and Mersenne Primes, Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search - GIMPS
  SOURCE: Luke Welsh
• Materials for the History of Statistics
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Classic papers, Portraits, J. Aubrey, T. Bayes, A. De Moivre, P. Fermat, G. Galilei, F. Galton, W. Gosset, E. Halley, C. Huygens, P. Laplace, A. Legendre, B. Pascal, A. Quetelet, T. Simpson, J. de Witt
  SOURCE: Peter M Lee, University of York
  TECHNOLOGY: Postscript reader
• Mathematical Connections
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Journal, Mathematics and the Humanities
• Mathematical Problems - Lecture Delivered Before the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris in 1900. (by Professor David Hilbert)
• Mathematicians of the African Diaspora
  ADD. KEYWORDS: People, The Ancients, Profiles of Black Mathematicians, The Morgan-Potsdam Model, Bibliography
• Mathematics Genealogy Project
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Ph.D. Students, Ph.D. Advisers
• Mathographies
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Biographies of Mathematicians, Maria Agnesi, Archimedes, Tartaglia, David Blackwell, Jerome Cardano, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, René Descartes, Perci Diaconis, Paul Erdös, Leonard Euler, Charles Fefferman, Evariste Galois, Paul Halmos, Edwin Hewitt, John Kemeny, Sonya Kovalevsky, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Issac Newton, Emmy Noether, Julia Robinson, Mary Ellen Rudin, Jean Taylor, John von Neumann, Karl Weierstrass
• Mathworld - History and Terminology
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Definitions, List of Theorems
• Mesopotamian Mathematics
  ADD. KEYWORDS: History, Chronology, Tokens, Sumerian metrological numeration systems, Old Babylonian multiplication tables, Weights and measures, Bibliography
• Network for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Conferences, Publications
• Newtonia
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Bibliography, Isaac Newton, Biography
• ORESME Home Page - Ohio River Explorers of Sources in Mathematical Exposition
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Felix Klein's Erlanger Programme, Helge von Koch's snowflake
• An Outline of the History of Game Theory
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Timeline, Bibliography
• Randomness in Arithmetic and the Decline & Fall of Reductionism in Pure Mathematics
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Lecture, Hilbert, Formal Axiomatic System, Decision Problem, Gödel, Turing and Cantor's Diagonal Argument, Computable Reals, Borel, Normal Real Numbers
• SANGAKU - Japanese Temple Geometry Problem
• SCIAMVS Sources and Commentaries in Exact Sciences
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Printed Journal
• A Sideways Look at Hilbert's Twenty-three Problems of 1900
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Article, David Hilbert
  SOURCE: Ivor Grattan-Guinness and Notices of the AMS
  TECHNOLOGY: Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Some Famous Mathematicians
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Biography
• Teaching With Original Historical Sources in Mathematics
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Class Materials, Books, Articles, Bibliography
• Thoughts on Ancient Egyptian Mathematics
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Article
  SOURCE: Kim R. W. Zahrt, IUSB Undergraduate Research Journal
• Women's contribution to Mathematics
  ADD. KEYWORDS: Bibliography, Books written by women
  SOURCE: Mara Neusel and European Women in Mathematics
  TECHNOLOGY: Postscript reader