History of Mathematics

Resources on the Web

American Mathematical Society's e- MATH (http://e-math.ams.org/)

The American Mathematical Society's resource for delivering electronic products and services to mathematicians now has electronic versions of all primary AMS journals with full-text searching across all journals beginning January 1996 -- articles may be downloaded in a variety of formats -- you may also get a demo of MathSciNet, the online version of "Mathematical Reviews," which is now available at HSU.

Biographies of Women Mathematicians (http://www.scottlan.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm)

Part of an ongoing project by students in mathematics classes at Agnes Scott College.

British Society for the History of Mathematics (http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/bshm/)

Its goals are to "promote research into the history of mathematics and its use at all levels of mathematics education." Has a link to the Society's file of brief abstracts of papers published in books and journals since 1991.

Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics (http://www.kingsu.ab.ca/~glen/cshpm/home.htm)

Founded in 1974, the society promotes research and teaching in the history and philosophy of mathematics -- home page has links to many sites related to the history of mathematics.

Charles Babbage Institute Home Page (http://www.cbi.umn.edu/)

A research center at the University of Minnesota dedicated to promoting the study and preservation of the history of information processing. Includes an oral history interview collection.

History of Computing (http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/)

The initiation of a collection of materials related to the history of computing.

History of Mathematics (http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/HistMath.html)

WWW pages on 17th and early 18th century mathematicians.

History of Mathematics (http://aleph0.clarku.edu:80/~djoyce/mathhist/mathhist.html)

An excellent way to begin researching the history of math. Has lists of Web resources, a clickable map of regional mathematics, a chronology of mathematicians, a clickable timeline, etc.

History of Mathematics and Related Fields (http://elib.zib-berlin.de:88/Math-Net/Links/math-museum.hist.html)

The "History Wing" of The Mathematical Museum, part of the Math-Net Links to the Mathematical World -- contains many links to sites on the history of mathematics; e.g., a brief history of algebra and computing, the works of Archimedes, the art of Renaissance science discussing the importance of mathematics to art, etc.

History of Science Museum in Florence, Italy (http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/)

In Italian and English.

Humboldt State University Department of Mathematics (http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~mathdept/)

Has several links to mathematics resources on the web, including some in the history of mathematics.

Library of Congress Exhibition on Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture - Mathematics (http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/vatican/math.html)

An exhibit showing that the Scientific Revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries had its foundation in Greek mathematics.

List of Mathematics Information Servers (http://www.math.psu.edu/OtherMath.html)

Includes a list of mathematics department web servers throughout the world, mathematics electronic journals, mathematics preprints,mathematics software, and mathematics organizations.

MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive (http://www-groups.dcs.st- and.ac.uk/~history/)

Contains the biographies of more than 1000 mathematicians as well as photos of approximately 500 mathematicians -- even has a link to a birthplace map.

Math Forum Internet Resource Collection on Math History (http://forum.swarthmore.edu/~steve/steve/mathhistory.desc.html)

A collection of links to resources on the history of mathematics, such as the Vatican Exhibit materials on ancient mathematics; Fermat's last theorem; a paper written by George Boole in 1848; etc. -- annotated version is especially useful because there are excellent summaries of what the sites contain.

Mathematical Association of America (http://www.maa.org/)

The world's largest organization devoted to the promotion of collegiate mathematics.

Mathematical Quotations Server (http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodard/mquot.html)

A collection of mathematical quotations from many sources. May be searched by keyword.

Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/RBallHist.html)

Accounts of the lives and works of mathematicians of the seventeenth and first half of the eighteenth century, adapted from "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics" by W. W. Rouse Ball (4th edition, 1908).

MathSearch (http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/MathSearch.html)

You can search a collection of over 90,000 documents on English-language mathematics and statistics servers across the Web! Most of the documents deal with research level and university mathematics.

Museum of HP Calculators (http://www.teleport.com/~dgh/hpmuseum.html)

Mathematical history of the early Hewlett Packard calculators (page is not affiliated with the corporation) -- very interesting site!

Museum of the History of Science at Oxford University (http://info.ox.ac.uk/departments/hooke/)

Covers almost all aspects of the history of science, from antiquity to the early twentieth century -- particularly strong in their collection of scientific instruments, including early mathematical instruments -- currently has "virtual exhibitions" entitled "The Measurers: A Flemish Image of Mathematics in the Sixteenth Century" and "The Geometry of War, 1500-1750."

The Ada Project (TAP): Tapping Internet Resources for Women in Computer Science (http://www.cs.yale.edu/HTML/YALE/CS/HyPlans/tap/tap.html)

Has links to information on "women of computing - past and present", a photo gallery of women and computers, etc.

Virtual Museum of Computing (http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums/computing.html)

An eclectic colletion of Web hyperlinks to sources on the history of computing as well as online exhibits, corporate histories, computer-related museums, etc.

This page was last updated August 26, 1997.

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