Note: These sites were generated by the students enrolled in Math 218 during Fall Term of 2004. Their abstracts of the pages are included.
(Review One.) The School of Mathematics and Statistics host this site at the University of St. Andrews Scotland. The site is broken into two main areas: Babylonian mathematics, and Egyptian Mathematics. Both areas present you with a variety of topics and a brief overview. The Babylonian index includes Babylonian numerals, Pythagorean theorem in Babylonian math, as well as their history of zero. On the other hand the Egyptian index includes the numerals, equations written on papyrus, and their history of zero.
(Review Two.) This site is hosted by the School of mathematics and Statistics at St. Andrews, Scotland. It deals almost exclusively with Babylonian and Egyptian mathematics with a brief passage on the history of Zero. The site gives a broad overview of the mathematics found in each civilization followed by a lengthy discussion of respective number systems. The site also features a discussion of special topics as they occur in Babylonian or Egyptian mathematics.
(Review One.) This site does not go too in depth, but gives the chronological order of how mathematics changed, what time period this happened and also where it happened. It does not give information on the different mathematicians this site is maintained by David E. Joyce from Clark University.
(Review Two.) This site is maintained by David Joyce of Clark University. As a viewer of the website, you can view extensive lists of mathematicians based on chronological order or the region from which they came from. If you're looking for information based on a particular branch of mathematics, you can find information and sources of information based on subject as well. This site also provides nice maps that show where the regions listed actually are in relation to our world now. For example, the maps on this site show that Babylonia was very near the current Iraq. In addition to providing these maps and lists, this website provides links to other sites and books where you can find more in-depth information not covered in the website.
(Review Three.) This is an archive of mathematical history, organized by region, individual subject, and chronology. Regions include Babylonia, Egypt, China, Greece, India, Japan, and Europe. Topics are separated into numerals and counting, algebra, geometry, arithmetic and number theory, mathematical analysis, and probability and statistics. Also, it offers a mathematical timeline from 1700 BCE up to 1940. It offers links to MacTutor in several places.
(Review Four.) Includes maps, timelines, chronologies, archives, links to other sites and more.
(Review Five.) This site, maintained by David Joyce of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Clark University in Worcester, MA, contains links to information on the history of mathematics organized by geographical region, subject, and chronology. It also provides hundreds of links and listings for related websites, books, and journals.
(Review One.) This site, maintained by Dr. David Wilkins of the School of Mathematics at Trinity College of Dublin, is a brief history of the mathematicians of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with emphasis on William Hamilton, Georg Riemann, Isaac Newton, George Boole, and Georg Cantor. In all, over eighty mathematicians are discussed, with short biographies and contributions in a chronology taken from W. W. Rouse Ball's A Short Account of the History of Mathematics. Information is also available in detail about the Analyst Controversy, which doubts the fidelity of analysis methods used by Mathematicians.
(Review Two.) This site is maintained by Dr. David Wilkins from Trinity College, Dublin. It gives extensive details about Sir William Rowan Hamilton, George Reimann, and smaller sections on Sir Isaac Newton, George Boole and Georg Cantor.
(Review Four.) This site contains biographies of famous mathematicians and tells about many of their important discoveries. It also has links to other potentially useful sites about math history.
(Review Five.) Dr. David R. Wilkins of the School of Mathematics at Trinity College in Dublin maintains this website devoted to the history of mathematics. Although the site focuses largely on two mathematicians (Hamilton and Riemann), Wilkins also discusses a number of other subjects and includes a list of links to a vast supply of other information on the history of math. Each of his pages also contains links which are specifically relevant to the subject of the page.
(Review One.) This site was designed to help Duncan J. Melville's History of Mathematics students. The political history of Mesopotamia is briefly outlined to put the mathematical achievements in context. The site is well organized and covers a wide arrangement of topics such as multiplication, the evolution of their number system, square roots, and pre-algebraic problem solving.
(Review Two.) This site is hosted by Duncan J. Melville, professor of Ancient and Classical mathematics at St. Lawrence University, New York. This is probably the most extensive source of information on Mesopotamian mathematics and it is still being updated. It starts of by giving a rather detailed summary of the political history of Mesopotamia and the main periods relevant to the development of mathematics followed by a discussion of mathematics as it occurred in the various periods. The site also features links to tablets on the web.
(Review Three.) This is a fairly large site devoted exclusively to ancient Babylonian mathematics. It includes background information on Babylonian political history, the main periods of Mesopotamian mathematical history, as well as chronological summaries of their numerical system, and specific developments during 2 different time periods. Specific topics covered include Cuneiform numbers, multiplication tables, reciprocals, and quadratic equations. There are many links to other related sites and to bibliographical information.
(Review One.) This site is a series of lectures on the History of Mathematics from G. Donald Allen of Texas A & M University. The topics include Egyptian, American, Chinese, Hindu, and Greek ancient mathematics, as well as focusing individually on Thales, Anaxagoras, Pythagorus, Eudoxus, Euclid, Archimedes, Diophantus, Pappus, Newton, Leibnitz, Barrow and Reimann.
(Review Two.) Includes many good topics
(Review One.) Maintained by G. Donald Allen from Texas A&M University gives this professors lectures on the history of Mathematics.
(Review Two.) Includes good overview of material, and in-depth readings.
(Review One.) This page is dedicated to the math of Africa other than that of Egypt. The page includes the Truths and Myths about African mathematics, and gives histories of mathematics in several different regions of the African continent. The page is hosted by the Mathematics Department of the State University of New York at Buffalo and contains links to other areas on the Buffalo site of mathematical interest.
(Review Two.) The Mathematics department of The State University of New York at Buffalo presents "Mathematics of the African Diaspora." The aim of this site is quite specific. It intends to educate the reader about the mathematical contributions of the peoples of Africa that are very rarely covered in most histories of math. There are pages on both the most common lies about this history and with truths, and the rest of the pages are specific treatments of the geographical areas of Africa, organized by their modern-day nations.
(Review One.) The main page offers a timeline of great African American Mathematicians from 1849 up to 1997. Most names mentioned offer links to biographical sites for those individuals.
(Review Two.) This site talks about some of the most influential African American mathematicians.
(Review One.) This is a fascinating site dedicated strictly to the biographies of female mathematicians. It is provided by the department of mathematics at Agnes Scott University. The essays it links to are primarily written by students of the college, but there are a great many to choose from ranging from the fourth and fifth centuries CE to the 21st. Unfortunately, the site does not always go into much more depth about the women it features. Some entries are little more than a list of qualifications and a mention of what type of math they dealt with.
(Review Two.) This is a site that contains biographies on women mathematicians. Over 140 women are profiled, some with very basic biographies, and others that have been researched more extensively (all biographical essays were written by students at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, GA). There is a fairly broad spectrum of mathematicians and the site is continuously being updated as new biographies are added or current biographies expanded. This is not an extremely large site, but it is useful because so much information about women in mathematics is centralized in one place.
(Review Three.) This site tells about some famous female mathematicians.
(Review Two.) This site give links to other mathematical sites of interest, like article about the abacus, female mathematicians, logarithmic tables, etc. The site is maintained by Earl Fife and Larry Husch.
(Review Two.) This site provides an alphabetical index of other sites on topics ranging from the use of an Abacus in various number systems to Women's contribution to Mathematics. Other interesting topics include Archimedes and the computation of pi, Fibonnaci - his rabbits and his numbers and Kepler, and most intriguing of all, great Polish mathematicians.
(Review Three.) The Math Archives provide links to web pages related to forty different topics about the history of mathematics. The site also includes information on the Math Archives themselves, which are devoted to "provid[ing] organized Internet access to a wide variety of mathematical resources," a list of awards the site has received, and also links to many other similar sites.
Leibniz. This site is completely dedicated to man after whom our Math Server is named, Leibniz. It offers sections on his life and works, his texts, philosophy, link to other Leibniz pages, research, conferences, articles, books, and the work of the author of this site. Though some of it is in Finnish, the English writings are a good read.