History of Mathematics WWW Sites
Sorted by Region/Culture

Compiled and annotated by students in the History of Mathematics class
Department of Mathematics Education
University of Georgia
1996-1997


Alexandria

http://pharos.bu.edu/Egypt/Alexandria/
Alexandria. Alexandria past and present

http://pharos.bu.edu/Egypt/Alexandria/History/legacy.html
History of Alexandria. Links to famous Egyptian mathematicians

All

http://www.siue.edu/~dcollin/index.html
Math King's Court. Many Math related subjects.

http://www.siue.edu/~dcollin/mathfame.html
Hall of Great Mathematicians. Mathematicians.

http://www.tufts.edu/~kkinel/sitereview.htrnl
History Site Review. History and Learning Page.

http://www.math.upenn.edu/MathSources.html
Penn Mathematics- Mathematics Sources. Good for Research.

http://www.mystery.com/WAM/resources/history.html
Women and Mathematics. Good links to women mathematicians.

http://www.harpercollins.com/College/mkatz.html
The History of Mathematics. Comments: General links to History of Mathematics topics.

http://www.mnsfld~edu/depts/matb/othersites.html
Useful Mathematical Sites. Good links to many useful sites.

http://ms.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/MathSearch.html
MathSearch.


Arabian

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/Mathematicians/Abu'l_Wafa.html
Abu'l Wafa. Contributed to the development of trig

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/Mathematicians/Aryabhata.html
Aryabhata. Contributed to the development of trig

Chinese

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/china.html
History of Mathematics

http://mathserv.math.sfu.ca/History_of_Math/China/ChinaTimeLine.html
Welcome to Chinese History of Mathematics. Will be good when finished

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/math-history-list/yenquendkoi
Roots in Chinese Mathematics. Links to questions and answers about the History of Chinese Mathematics.

Egypt

http://ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu/~ajgillen/Ewomen.html
Resource guide to WWW sites about ancient Egyptian women; Reference links for gender issues and Egyptologists

http://pibweb.it.nwu.edu/~pib/archaeo.htm
Archaeology; Egyptian links

http://www.emory.edu/CARLOS/
Michael Carlos Museum. Emory University Egyptian Museum with pictures and links

http://www.emory.edu/CARLOS/ODYSSEY
Odysee Online, Great Egyptian links for kids

http://www.emory.edu/CARLOS/ODYSSEY/EGYPT/peopleresources.html
Bibliography, References to biographies about people who lived in Ancient Egypt

http://www.emory.edu/lNDEX/
Michael Carlos Museum. Emory University, Index

http://www.library.nwu.edu/class/history/B94/B94women.html
The status of women; Discusses various aspects of females in ancient Egypt

Egyptian, Indian, Greek

http://ernie.bgsu/~vrickey/hpm/newsletter35.html
International study Group on Relations Between History and Pedagogy of Mathematics. Good links to history and pedagogy of mathematics.

England

http://secure.londonmAll.co.uk/babbage/history.htm
Babbage, Pioneer of Modern Computers History of Charles Babbage.

English/Canada

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/Mathematicians/Coxeter.html
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter Links: Baker, Veblen, Fuller, BAll, symmetry

Europe

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/europe.html
European mathematicians. Also includes links pertaining to early (Renaissance) mathematics and related sciences in Europe

http://mathserv.math.sfu.ca/History_of_Math/Europe/EuropeTimeLine.html
Welcome to European History of Mathematics. Will be good when finished

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/Mathematicians/Segner.html
Johann Andrea von Segner Links: Daniel Bernoulli, Euler

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/Mathematicians/Polya.html
George Polya Links: Hilbert, Weyl, Hurwitz, Hardy, Littlewood, Fourier

Europe, China, and India

http://mathserv.math.sfu.ca/History_of_Math/mapidx.html
Welcome to History of Mathematics. Links to history of math in even thought these sites are mainly under construction, they are worth keeping an eye out for progress-good possibilities here

Germany

http://sac.uky.edu/~ksmcke0/Van_Ceulen/
Ludolph Van Ceulen's Home Page.

Great Britain

http://marie.mit.edurbruen/newton-effect.html
British Mathematics-Post Newton Era The decline and recovery of British Mathematics in the Post Newton Era

Greek

http://ghsl.greenheart.com/billh/greek.html
Greek Calendar. Interesting quote from Herodotus

http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/d-mathematics/Greek_math2.html
Greek mathematics and its modern heirs. Photographs of exhibits in the Vatican museum and links

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/encyclopedia?entry=Ptolemy
Pausanias Encyclopedia. Description of Greece. This web page is very informative as to the Greek Civilization and, in particular, Ptolemy.

http://www.cwi.nl/~keesh/mathbios/Mathematicians.html
Ptolemy

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/archimedes.html
Archimedes

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/Mathematicians/Hipparchus.html
Hipparchus of Rhodes

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Chris/GreekMath.html
The Science of the Greeks. Although it is difficult to use a great deal of the information found on this page, it is a good source of dates and very general information.

http://sdccl4.ucsd.edu/~fillmore/blurbs/Pythagoras/pyth.html
Pythagoras and His Scholarly Society. Greek Mathematician Pythagoras. Pythagoras's life story

http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~crones/Archimedes/Timeline/Timeline.html
Trigonometry. Addresses mathematicians such as Archimedes, Hannibal as well as events during the Punic wars.

http://www.neo-tech.com/zero/part2.html
The Lost Knowledge of the Greeks. Covers a variety of topics in Greek mathematics, but the Pythagoreans are covered in great detail.

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/Mathematicians/Menelaus.html
Menelaus. Contributed to the development of Trigonometry

http://uces.ameslab.gov/uces/archive/resources/trig/node6.html
Archives in Trigonometry

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Experimental/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/exhibit/d~mathematics/Mathematics.html
Greek Math Mathematics-Ancient Science and Its Modern Fates. Greek Mathematicians and Astronomy. Mainly a Greek page.

http://members.aol.com/spop998390/hypatia.htm
Hypatia of Alexandria. Greek Mathematician. Possibly 1st woman to contribute to the development of math.

http://www.astro.virginia.edu/eww6n/books/node167.html
Greek Mathematics History

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/alexandria.html
Alexandria. Links: Euclid, Ptolemy, Pappus, Hypatia, Alexandria, Library of Alexandria

http://myhouse.com/mc/planet/astrodir/History.html
Astrolabe History

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/Mathematicians/Archimedes.html
Archimedes of Syracuse

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/Mathematicians/Ptolemy.html
The Trigonometric Functions. This web page provides a wealth of knowledge about the many mathematicians from various cultures that contributed to modern-day trigonometry.

Greek, Babylonian and Egyptian

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/HistTopics/Babylonian_and_Egyptian.html
Babylonian and Egyptian Mathematics. This page is outstanding because it provides a comparison/contrast between the Babylonians and the Egyptians. Bibliography, Magic Squares

Greek, Indian, Chinese

http://www.math.tamu.edu/~don.Allen/history/m629_97a
Math 629-History of Mathematics. Good links to history of Chinese, Hindu, and Greek Mathematics.

Indian

http://mathserv.math.sfu.ca/History_of_Math/India/IndiaTimeLine.html
Welcome to Indian History of Mathematics, Will be good when finished

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/Mathematicians/Bhaskara.html
Bhaskara. Contributed to the development of trig

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/Mathematicians/Brahmagupta.html
Brahmagupta. Contributed to the development of trig.

Japanese

http://www.wwa.com/math/MathPro.html
Math Pro Comments: On this home page are the titles of books published by MathPro Press including Japanese Mathematics Problems of the 18th and 19th Centuries by Hidetosi Fukagawa.

Mesopotamian

http://it.stlawu.edu/~dmelvill/mesomath/index.html
Mesopotamian Mathematics. Comments: General topics about history of math in Mesopotamia.

Roman

http://ghsl.greenheart.com/billh/earlyrom.html
Early Roman Calendars. Mythology

http://ghsl.greenheart.com/billh/plutarch.html
Plutarch on the Early Roman Calendar. Greek biographer, Plutarch's, views on the Roman Calendar

Western

http://canyon.ucsd.edu/ai/Kurt/project.html
A Look at Tilling. On this page the user has options of learning about regular tilling, symmetries, creating prototypes, spiral tilling and a puzzle. This is very informative and visuAlly attractive.


Miscelaneous

This list contains addresses of particular topics in mathematics, addressed by different cultures (e.g. calendars, pi). They are not organized yet!


Calendars

http://astro.nmsu.edu/~lhuber/leaphist.html
Calendars and Their History. Rules and history of different calendars.

http://www.pip.dknet.dk/~pipl0160/calendar.faql.txt
Calendar FAQ. Most commonly asked questions and their answers includes Hebrew, Islamic, Greek, Mayan calendars.

Pi


http://www.direct.ca/trinity/pi.html
PI in the Sky. This page points out the various references to PI.

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/HistTopics/Pi_through_the_ages.html
PI through the Ages; many links & references

Various

http://www.mhri.edu.au/~pdb/modelling/triangulate.html
Triangulate. This is a thorough presentation of an algorithm for creating a three dimensional mapping of a surface area. The method employs Dirichlet tiling.

http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/university/scit/maths/history.htm
History of Math Page Links: Math History Topics,Women Mathematicians, Pi

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/HistTopics.html
History Topic Index Comments: From the previous title page the choice of History Topics leads the user to this page. Here choices are listed such as Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics, a history of pi, calendar mathematics, cubic equations and many other areas of interest in the history of mathematics.

http://www.geom.umn.edu/apps/quasitiler/about/html
Quasitiler 3.0 Comments: The Geometry Center at the University of Minnesota created this interactive software which enables students to set parameters so the software can compute new patterns and display them on the Web browser. Interesting narratives about the patterns created are also included.

http://insci2.ucsd.edu/~fillmore/blurps/numbsys.html
History of numerical systems. w/ references

http://www.enc.org/
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education. Comments: This home page is organized so the user can locate information about mathematics and science education from research topics to lesson plans.

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/HistTopics/Trigonometric_Functions
Trig functions. History of Trig Functions

http://www.mathsoft.com/asolve/constant/e/e.html
Favorite constants: about e

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist//time.html
Neat visual timeline of mathematicians with links to biographies

http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodward/mquot.html
Furman University Mathematical Quotations Server Good-mathematical quotations from historical figures in mathematics.

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~sdlitn/history.html
History of Mathematics. Comments: Good lesson plan for writing about History of Mathematics-using quotations.

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/Indexes/1001_1550.html
Mathematicians born from 1001 to 1550

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archives. This is the title page for history of mathematics archives in MacTutor. The user has many choices of places to go from this page including mathematician's birthplaces and topics of interest historicAlly.

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/histtopics/Mathematical_games.html
Historical creators of mathematics and their biographies. Many links