History of Mathematics Links:
Topics in the Development of Mathematics
- Library of Congress Vatican Exhibit: Mathematics
- Proofs of the Quadratic Reciprocity Law (Franz Lemmermeyer)
- OLD URL history.hyperjeff.net/hypercomplex.html" Sketching the History of Hypercomplex Numbers, by Jeff Biggus
- A Century of Controversy over the Foundations of Mathematics, by G. J. Chaitin
- From Flatland to Hypergraphics: Interacting with Higher Dimensions, Thomas F. Banchoff (Brown University)
- The Abacus: The Art of Calculating with Beads (Luis Fernandes)
- CryptoCellar: Cryptology and its History (Frode Weierud, CERN)
- Famous Problems in the History of Mathematics (Isaac Reed, The Math Forum, Drexel)
- Elliptic Curves and Formal Groups, Woods Hole, 1964 (Felipe Voloch, University of Texas at Austin)
- Continued Fractions
- OLD URL www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~sfinch/" Favorite Mathematical Constants (Steven Finch, Harvard University)
- A Visual Dictionary of Special Plane Curves (Xah Lee)
- The Mathematical Problems of David Hilbert (David E. Joyce, Clarke University)
- Hilbert's Tenth Problem (Maxim Vsemirnov, Steklov Institute of Mathematics)
- Triangle Geometers (Clark Kimberling, University of Evansville)
- Über ein Extremwertproblem aus der Dreiecksgeometrie - historische und schulgeometrische Betrachtungen, by Prof. Dr. Peter Baptist (Universität Bayreuth) (in German)
- Biographies of past number theorists and various items of historical interest (Keith Matthews, University of Queensland)
- Materials for the History of Statistics (Peter M. Lee, University of York)
- History of Game Theory (Paul Walker, University of Canterbury)
- Teoria de Nusos (Toni Buades, Dani Ruiz, Jaume Perelló, Biel Frontera, in Catalan)
- Chronology of Recreational Mathematics (David Singmaster, South Bank University) (no longer online?)
- Optics Highlights: An Anecdotal History of Optics from Aristophanes to Zernike (L.S. Taylor, University of Maryland)
- Earliest Uses of Various Mathematical Symbols (Jeff Miller)
- Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (Jeff Miller)
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