History Links
- British Society for the History of Mathematics The aims of the British Society for the History of Mathematics are to promote research into the history of mathematics and its use at all levels of mathematics education. It does this through meetings, a newsletter and by other means. The BSHM takes in all periods and civilisations, and all aspects of mathematics, both pure and applied. Members come from a broad cross-section of those interested in mathematics, its history and education, and from many countries.
- Cornell Digital Library Mathematics Collection The Cornell University Math Collection consists of 571 books that were scanned from originals held by the Cornell University Library. All books disbound and all pages scanned. The Collection is indexed by Author and Title.
- Mechanical Calculators Prior to the 19th Century Explains the development and motivation for creating calculating machines.
- Mathematics: Ancient Science and Its Modern Fates A virtual exhibition of historical documents.
- International Commission on the History of Mathematics (ICHM) Promotes history of mathematics as a scientific discipline.
- The History And Uses Of Calculus Development of the concepts of calculus.
- How To Use a Slide Rule Simple intoduction.
- About Slide Rules How to use slide rules.
- EMSHISTORY99 History of the European Mathematical Society from foundation to end of 1998. By David A.R. Wallace, Glasgow.
- Instructions in Slide Rule Use Basic instructions and a number of manuals in pdf format.
- Math Forum: Math-history-list Find others who share their interests in the history of mathematics at the math-history-list discussion list.
- Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics CSHPM Promotes research and teaching in the history and philosophy of mathematics.
- 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.
- History of Ganit (Mathematics) Includes history of algebra (alzebra), trignometry, numerical mathematics, and geometry in India.
- History of Mathematics An archive of articles, including over 1350 biographies of mathematicians throughout history. Part of the Mathematical MacTutor.
- The Euler Project To help make available in English some of the works of the great Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707-1783).
- DERA Mathematics Department and its Successors 1968 - 1991 An account of the history of mathematics and computing in the Defense Evaluation and Research Agency of the UK Government.
- Earliest Uses of Various Mathematical Symbols Shows who introduced common mathematical symbols, and where the symbol appeared
- William Oughtred (1574-1660) Oughtred is best known for his invention of an early form of the slide rule.
- History of Mathematics - Facets of India : Ancient and Modern Contains information on History of Mathematics with respect to world in genaral and with respect to India in particular. Also on discovery of pi, zero Algebra and Trignometry....
- Ethnomathematics Bibliography A bibliography of potentially useful references.
- Alta Mathematica A site devoted to collector's books on mathematics and other science
- Math and Numbers in Early History. Article summarizing and illustrating early methods of counting and representing of numbers.
- Webster's History of Mathematics (NoiseFactory Science Archive) Including Ancient Egypt, Assyria and Babylonian.
- History of Mathematics. Includes classic texts by Hilbert and Euclid (a Java enhanced version of the Elements) a chronology, and links.
- Teaching with Original Historical Sources in Mathematics Reinhard Laubenbacher and David Pengelley.
- Fields Medals and Rolf Nevanlinna Prize Awarded in recognition of both existing mathematical work and the promise of future achievement.
- History of Japanese Mathematics Links to topics in the history of Japanese Mathematics
- Ethnomathematics Cultural Approaches to Mathematics
- Ancient Mathematics Library of Congress, Vatican Exhibit. Includes articles mainly about Greek Mathematics.
- Basic Slide Rule Instructions How to use a slide rule.
- Things They Don't Teach Anymore Once the best friend of engineers, mathematicians, scientists and the like, the slide rule has been replaced in the past three decades by the now-omnipresent calculator as the carry-along tool of choice for computations.
- Hilbert's Problems Article in the Platonic Realms. Lists Hilbert's 23 problems posed to the 1900 Congress.
- Original Documents on the History of Calculators Contains HTML versions of some original documents related to the history of calculators.
- Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics Shows who coined a wide variety of mathematical terms, or in some cases only the earliest known use of the word. Research is ongoing and the pages are frequently updated.
- Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea A concise and appealing look at the strangest number in the universe. By Charles Seife.
- A Brief History of Algebra and Computing: An Eclectic Oxonian View An essay by Jonathan Bowen.
- The Art of Algebra from Al-Khwarizmi to Viète Web text by Karen Hunger Parshall, University of Virginia.
- Math Forum: Search Matematica Discussion MATEMATICA, a Spanish math mailing list. Input a keyword query to locate postings on European and non-European math history, pedagogical issues, reviews of books, current trends, discussions of articles and more.
- Historia Matematica Mailing list moderated by Julio Gonzalez Cabillon.
- Math Forum: Search Historia-Matematica Those interested in the history of mathematics will find others around the world who share their interests at the historia-matematica discussion list.
- ChronoMath ChronoMath, histoire des mathématiques de l'Antiquité à nos jours à l'intention des professeurs et des élèves des lycées & collèges : les travaux des grands mathématiciens et l'étude des algorithmes qui y sont liés. History of mathematics.
- The Princeton Mathematics Community in the 1930s An oral history project with supporting on-line documents and links.
- Edwin Thacher's 1881 Slide Rule Patent Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 249117, dated November 1, 1881. Includes diagrams.
- The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive This archive has concise biographies for more than 1400 mathematicians, and many articles on the history of mathematics.
- The Coggeshall Slide Rule History of this unusual 1600s slide rule.
- Jim's vedic mathematics page This page contains some information on vedic mathematics as well as some helpful links.
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