Links to external pages

Spanish translations of some MacTutor articles

by Astroseti.

An expanding collection of translations of History topics articles and biographies

History of Mathematics

maintained by David E. Joyce (Clark University, USA)

Including a comprehensive chronology of mathematicians

Eric's Treasure Trove of Mathematics and Treasure Trove of Scientific Biography

maintained by Eric Weisstein (University of Virginia, USA)

A comprehensive encyclopedia of Mathematics (and other subjects) and collection of biographies.

Math Archives History of Mathematics

maintained by Earl Fife and Larry Hutch (University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA)

Many links to other sites

The British Society for the History of Mathematics

maintained by A Mann (University of Greenwich, UK)

Many links to other sites and including a Mathematical Gazetteer of Great Britain maintained by David Singmaster (South Bank University, UK)

Encyclopaedia Britannica

More than 400 of the mathematicians in our archive also have biographies in the on-line encyclopaedia.

The link is to a list of those that do.

Biographies of Women Mathematicians

maintained by Larry Riddle (Agnes Scott College, USA)

Contains some detailed biographies and images of women mathematicians

Earliest uses of mathematical symbols and words

maintained by Jeff Miller (New Port Richey, USA)

Contains information and discussion on the first occurrence of mathematical symbols and words.

Jeff Miller also maintains a page of mathematicians' images on postage stamps

Catalog of the Scientific Community: 16th and 17th Centuries

by Richard S Westfall (at the Galileo Project)

a searchable database of scientists including information on over 160 mathematicians.

Timelines for HyperComplex numbers , Electromagnetism and Statistical Mechanics

maintained by Jeff Biggus (University of Colorado, USA)

showing the developments of these areas

The Mathematical Quotations Server

maintained by Mark Woodard (Furman University, USA)

Quotations by mathematicians or about mathematics

Favourite Mathematical Constants

maintained by Steven Finch (Mathsoft, USA)

Information on a collection of well-known, and some more obscure constants

Maths pages

maintained by K S Brown (Seattle, USA)

A variety of articles on historical and other topics

Brightest SPARCS

database of scientists (ANU, Canberra, Australia) with a list of mathematicians

AIP Center for History of Physics

(American Institute of Physics, USA)

A history of physics with biographies and pictures of historical scientists

WWW Virtual Library, History of Science Technology and Medicine

maintained by Tim Sherratt (ASAP, Australia)

A more general history of science

History of Statistics and Probability

maintained by D. R. Wilkins (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)

Including excerpts from W. W. Rouse Ball's A short account of the history of mathematics

The History of Mathematics

maintained by D. R. Wilkins (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)

Including excerpts from W. W. Rouse Ball's A short account of the history of mathematics

Ancient Mathematics

at the Library of Congress Vatican Exhibit

some interesting articles mainly about Greek Mathematics

A History of Mathematics

maintained by Len Berggren (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada)

articles by students at Simon Fraser University

A Visual Dictionary of Plane Curves

maintained by Xah Lee (California, USA)

lots of well presented information about plane curves.

A History of Sciences related to Astronomy and references to astronomers

maintained by Wolfgang R. Dick (IFAG, Potsdam, Germany)

The sci.math FAQ

maintained by Alex Lopez-Ortiz (Waterloo, Canada)

Frequently Asked Questions addressed by the USENET group sci.math

A Brief History of Algebra and Computing: An Eclectic Oxonian View

by Jonathan Bowen (Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK)

A hypertext article with hyperlinks to the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.

The Math Forum@Drexel and Math History resource collection

A Virtual Center for Math Education on the Internet

Historia Mathematica

The home page of the official journal of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics.

The Invention Dimension

A resource for people who want to learn about American Inventors and their discoveries

Centre for History of Science and Technology

at the Université Libre de Bruxelles

This centre organises regular conferences on the history of mathematics.

The Museum of the History of Science

at the University of Oxford

The History Wing

of the Mathematical Museum at the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB)

The Geometry Center

with some excellent interactive web applications

History of Maths lectures

by G Donald Allen of Texas A and M University, USA

The Science Engineering and Math Program of the University of Delaware

A source of other mathematically oriented Web sites.

PASS maths magazine

This is a Web magazine containing some history and other mathematical features.

Earth/Matrix

A series of articles by Charles W Johnson on Science in Ancient Artwork.

Mathematicians of the African Diaspora

A site about African American mathematicians maintained by Dr. Scott W. Williams, University of Buffalo, USA.

The Yahoo Mathematics Page

A page of other Maths related sites

Links to other places in the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

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