Open Directory - Science: Math: History
See also: This category in other languages: - Topics are presented by topic areas, date, or mathematicians. Includes timeline and website search engine. - A complete timeline by Oxford professor, Jonathan Bowen. Discusses origins in ancient Greece, Arabia and England, analytical machines, boolean algebra and recent developments in the field. - Shows who coined a wide variety of commonly used terms. Organized by first letter. - Discusses first known appearances of common expressions, such as operations, variables and trigonometric functions. - A conference on the occasion of the publication, for the first time, of a complete digital edition of the oldest surviving manuscript of Euclid's Elements. St. Catherine's College, Oxford, UK; 7--8 October 2005. - This Site contains original correspondence, official documents and school reports of the mathematician Evariste Galois. This site provides a platform to translate these documents. - A poetic rendition of the key events in the development of the field that have taken place over the years. - An independent book publisher specializing in source materials history of mathematics and history of science. Includes list of publications available and contact information. - Elsevier journal about early mathematical discoveries. Includes table of contents and abstracts. - Includes an overview and history of Indian numerals, the Indian Sulbasutras, Jaina mathematics, the Bakhshali manuscript, pi and zero, along with biographical details of ancient Indian mathematicians. - Front for the Mathematics Arxiv of eprints section HO: biographies, philosophy of mathematics, mathematics education, recreational mathematics, communication of mathematics. - Includes classic texts by Hilbert and Euclid (a Java enhanced version of the Elements) a chronology, and links. - An overview. Includes a chronology of mathematicians and mathematical works, online references and a bibliography - Discusses the nation's early development of geometric concepts, algorithms, algebraic ideas and the idea of zero. Also, explains how these ideas may have traveled westward after some invasions from Arabic countries in the 13th century. - The Mathematics Association of America's online magazine on the history of mathematics and its use in mathematics education. - Descriptions and links relating to various historical problems and topics in mathematics. - Covers the early mathematical development in the country, such as the use of geometrical symbols. Includes discussion of influential works of local mathematicians. - Article summarizing and illustrating early methods of counting and representing of numbers. - Notes to Dr. Paul E. Dunne's math history lecture, with images. - Explains the development and motivation for creating calculating machines and algorithms. - Discusses the development of numbers, addition tables, exercise problems and solutions for quadratic equations in one of oldest known civilizations. - Discusses the technological, commercial and political reasons for the increase in mathematical development during this period. - Includes conversion tables, historical background and a Roman numerals test. - Japanese votive tablets featuring mathematical problems. Examples with pictures and further resources. - Detailed timeline of the development of hypercomplex numbers, from early discoveries of complex numbers to modern developments. Includes links to biographies and complete bibliography. - Includes math examples from the Rhind papyrus and Babylonian tablets. Also, discusses early Egyptian mythology. - Discusses how art and architecture were influenced by mathematical concepts, such as perspective. Includes photo examples. - Portsmouth, RI, USA; 8--11 August 2004. - Discusses development of integral and derivative calculus from the 17th century. Features contributions by key western mathematicians. Includes examples of selected problems and how they were originally solved in earlier times. Also, covers the historic background to computer algebraic systems. - Library of Congress. Includes articles and original document images of early Greek contributions to the field. - The site gives an idea about what is Vedic Mathematicsa - a long forgotten technique for mathematical calculations! The basic roots of Vedic mathematics lie in Vedas (written around 1500-900 BCE) which are a treasure house of knowledge and human experience-both secular and spiritual. - Discusses the development of the concept of infinity from the early Greeks of the fifth to the second century B.C. Covers the important findings of Zenos, the Pythagorean school, Eudoxus and Archimedes. - Article by Armand Borel from a lecture at Bochum in September 1996 in honour of R.Remmert. (March 01, 1998)
