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  MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/
Topics are presented by topic areas, date, or mathematicians. Includes timeline and website search engine.
  History of Mathematics. http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/
Includes classic texts by Hilbert and Euclid (a Java enhanced version of the Elements) a chronology, and links.
  MathWorld: History http://mathworld.wolfram.com/topics/History.html
Descriptions and links relating to various historical problems and topics in mathematics.
  Vatican Exhibit: Ancient Mathematics http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/d-mathematics/Greek_math.html
Library of Congress. Includes articles and original document images of early Greek contributions to the field.
  Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics http://members.aol.com/jeff570/mathword.html
Shows who coined a wide variety of commonly used terms. Organized by first letter.
  Earliest Uses of Mathematical Symbols http://members.aol.com/jeff570/mathsym.html
Discusses first known appearances of common expressions, such as operations, variables and trigonometric functions.
  Roman Numerals and Roman Dates http://www.wilkiecollins.demon.co.uk/roman/front.htm
Includes conversion tables, historical background and a demonstration on how to express the year 1999 in Roman numerals.
  History and Overview http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.HO
Front for the Mathematics Arxiv of eprints section HO: biographies, philosophy of mathematics, mathematics education, recreational mathematics, communication of mathematics.
  Mathematics in Latvia throughout the Centuries http://www.math.cornell.edu/~dtaimina/mathinlv.html
Covers the early mathematical development in the country, such as the use of geometrical symbols. Includes discussion of influential works of local mathematicians.
  Ancient Geometry and Insights into Math History http://members.aol.com/bbyars1/contents.html
Topics include background in Babylonian, Euclid, Al'Khwarizmi, pi, and trigonometry. Also has recreations and java chat.
  History of Mathematics: China http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/china.html
An overview. Includes a chronology of mathematicians and mathematical works, online references and a bibliography
  The Art of Renaissance Science http://www.mcm.edu/academic/galileo/ars/arshtml/arstoc.html
Discusses how art and architecture were influenced by mathematical concepts, such as perspective. Includes photo examples.
  The Princeton Mathematics Community in the 1930s http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/mathoral/math.html
An oral history project with supporting on-line documents and links.
  Historia Mathematica http://authors.elsevier.com/JournalDetail.html?PubID=622841
Elsevier journal about early mathematical discoveries. Includes table of contents and abstracts.
  Green Lion Press http://www.greenlion.com/
An independent book publisher specializing in source materials history of mathematics and history of science. Includes list of publications available and contact information.
  A Brief History of Algebra and Computing http://vmoc.museophile.org/algebra/
By Oxford professor, Jonathan Bowen. Discusses origins in ancient Greece, Arabia and England, analytical machines, boolean algebra, and recent developments in the field.
  Symbol, Form and Number in Ancient Egypt http://www.seshat.ch/
Includes math examples from the Rhind papyrus and Babylonian tablets. Also, discusses early Egyptian mythology.
  Mesopotamian Mathematics - 8000 B.C. to 364 A.D. http://it.stlawu.edu/~dmelvill/mesomath/index.html
Discusses the development of numbers, addition tables, exercise problems and solutions for quadratic equations in one of oldest known civilizations.
  History of Mathematics - Facets of India http://www.geocities.com/dipalsarvesh/mathematics.html
Includes history of algebra trigonometry, numerical mathematics, and geometry in this region.
  Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea http://www.users.cloud9.net/~cgseife/zero.html
A concise and appealing look at the strangest number in the universe. By Charles Seife.
  Mechanical Calculators Prior to the 19th Century http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~ped/teachadmin/histsci/htmlform/lect3.html
Explains the development and motivation for creating calculating machines and algorithms.
  Math History Timeline - Pre-historic and Ancient Times http://lahabra.seniorhigh.net/pages/teachers/pages/math/timeline/MpreAndAncient.html
La Hababra high school page includes dates for important developments in the field of mathematics that occurred from approximately 1,000,000 B.C. to 500 A.D. Also, has an accompanying timeline for general historic events.
  Mechanical Aids to Computation and the Development of Algorithms http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~ped/teachadmin/histsci/htmlform/lect2.html
Article summarizing and illustrating early methods of counting and representing of numbers.
  Sangaku http://www.sangaku.info/
Japanese votive tablets featuring mathematical problems. Examples with pictures and further resources.
  The History of the Calculus and the Development of Computer Algebra Systems http://www.math.wpi.edu/IQP/BVCalcHist/calctoc.html
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.
  Renaissance Mathematics http://www.idbsu.edu/courses/hy309/projects/math.html
Discusses the technological, commercial and political reasons for the increase in mathematical development during this period.
  Mechanical Aids to Computation and the Development of Algorithms http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~ped/teachadmin/histsci/htmlform/slides.html
Notes to Dr. Paul E. Dunne's math history lecture, with images.
  Original Documents on the History of Calculators http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/1404/
Contains HTML versions of some original documents related to the history of calculators.
  Twenty-Five Years with Nicolas Bourbaki http://www.ega-math.narod.ru/Bbaki/Bourb3.htm
Article by Armand Borel from a lecture at Bochum in September 1996 in honour of R.Remmert.
  Washington Post: The Search for Infinity http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/mysteryaleph.htm
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.
  Galois Translation Project (GTP) http://www.galois-group.net/gtp/
This Site contains original correspondence, official documents and school reports of the mathematician Evariste Galois. This site provides a platform to translate these documents.
  Vedic Mathematics- Ancient Indian Mathematics http://www.sanalnair.org/articles/index-ved.htm
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.
  History of Mathematics in India http://members.tripod.com/~INDIA_RESOURCE/mathematics.htm
Describes Indian mathematicians such as Aryabhatta - who modelled the solar system, Bhaskar, Varahamira, and others who made important contributions in the fields of trigonometry, algebra, and classical analysis.
  The Euler 2004 Conference http://home.adelphi.edu/~bradley/EulerSociety/home.html
Portsmouth, RI, USA; 8--11 August 2004.
  Ancient Math Papers Restored http://plus.maths.org/issue14/news/papyri/
Thanks to new imaging technology, part of the remains of a private library, owned by Roman statesman and Julius Caesar's father-in-law, may now be read. These papers were original discovered in 1752 in the town of Herculaneum.
  Euclid and His Heritage http://www.claymath.org/euclid/
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.
  India's Contribution to Ancient Mathematics http://mathemajik.tripod.com/article/mathematics.html
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.
  Historia Matematica http://www.chasque.apc.org/jgc/history/MH6.htm
A forum which provides a virtual environment for scholarly discussion of the History of Mathematics, amongst professionals, and non-professionals with a serious interest in the field. A bilingual site (Spanish and English).

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