History of Math Resources

Online Resources for History of Mathematics

http://www.mathsisgoodforyou.com/

Math is Good for You--History of Mathematics for Young Mathematicians: this website provides worksheets, lesson starters, and links for incorporating history of math into your classes.

http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/                                                               

Mactutor: This website contains short biographies of LOTS of mathematicians and the contributions of many cultures.  Nice pictures and interesting external links.

http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/bshm/resources.html

BSHM: The British Society for the History of Mathematics maintains a page created by June Barrow-Green that gives an organized set of internet links to sites on the history of mathematics.  A great starting point for finding mathematics history information on the internet.

http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm

Agnes Scott Women Mathematicians: This site contains biographies for women mathematicians through history.

http://www.maa.org/publications/periodicals/convergence

Convergence: Convergence is an online history of math magazine put out by the Mathematical Association of America. “Mathematical Treasures” and “On this day in the History of Mathematics” calendar

http://philamat.blogspot.pt/

Philamat: Mathematics – a philatelic history

Math through history on stamps. Pretty cool.

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Societies/ParisNames.html

Mathematicians with Paris streets named after them. Who knew?

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.html

Euclid’s Elements online: Interactive diagrams (if you have Java) and linked propositions.

http://jeff560.tripod.com/mathsym.html

Math Symbols:  This site has references to the earliest known uses of mathematical symbols.

http://www.simonsingh.net/The_Black_Chamber/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/decoding/

Codebreaking: The two sites above have lots of activities surrounding codebreaking and the WWII Enigma machine, as was featured in The Imitation Game.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/proof/

Fermat’s Last Theorem: This Nova site has great teaching materials surrounding the famous Fermat’s Last Theorem.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/archimedes/

Archimedes: This Nova site has great teaching materials surrounding the famous the mathematics of Archimedes and his famous palimpsest.