Math through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Others Expanded Second Edition
William P. Berlinghoff, Fernando Q. Gouvêa. The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive is well known for its huge ... Earliest Uses of Various Mathematical Symbols . It deals with the history of mathematical notation and other ...
The Early Mathematics of Leonhard Euler
... Math Systems Theory 18 ( 1985 ) 295-328 . [ M ] Miller , Jeff , Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics , http://members.aol.com/ jeff570 / mathword.html , as revised April 24 , 2002 . [ StA ] " The number e " at http ...
A Transition to Advanced Mathematics
A Survey Course William Johnston, Alex McAllister. • Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics at http ... history. • The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (or GIMPS) at http://www. mersenne.org/ Section 3.1 ...
The Edge of the Universe
... of this result led Schur to dub. and.ac.uk/history/ . 5. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics , members.aol.com/ jeff570 / mathword.html . rational . The Roots of the Branches of Mathematics, Rheta Rubenstein and Randy ...
Introduction to Financial Technology
... uses five economic series , including the consumer price index ( CPI ) and the unskilled wage rate . It is hosted at the Economic History site : [ 0.3 ] http://www.eh.net/ A good online source documenting the earliest known uses of some ...
Math Horizons
... dcs . st-and.ac.uk/history/ . 5. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics , http : // members.aol.com/jeff570/ mathword.html . The author receiving an award from Richard Poss , president 20 Math Horizons February 1999.
Karl Marx and Mathematics
Pradip Baksi. MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive : < http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/ > ; Selin , Helaine ( 2000 ) , Mathematics across cultures : The History of Non - Western Mathematics . Dordrecht : Springer . URL ...
A to Z of Women in Science and Math
... MacTutor History of Mathematics. School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland ... some people considered her a saint. She recorded accurate descriptions of plants and described their use in medicine, as ...
Choice
... mathematics content , recreational mathematics , the history of mathematics ... some broken links , especially in the Education section , but aside from ... MacTutor history of mathematics archive URL : http://www-groups.dcs.st ...
Classification in the Information Age
... use today , such as • Navigation by historic terms , chronologies or history maps ( History of Mathematics from Mac Tutor , Chronology of Mathematicians ) • Navigation by theory , e.g. , by mathematical expressions ( Famous Cur- ves Index ...
The Words of Mathematics
While other dictionaries of mathematics define technical terms, this book concentrates on where those terms came from and what their literal meanings are. The words included here range from simple to advanced.
Forthcoming Books
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Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics
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A Historical Dictionary of Mathematical Terms
This unique reference work systematically presents and studies mathematical terms, sourcing literature from antiquity until the 20th century.
A Historical Dictionary of Mathematical Terms
This unique reference work systematically presents and studies mathematical terms, sourcing literature from antiquity until the 20th century.
A Historical Dictionary of Mathematical Terms
This unique reference work systematically presents and studies mathematical terms, sourcing literature from antiquity until the 20th century.
Math & Mathematicians: A-H
This volume, covering "A-H," presents biographies of mathematicians from throughout history and articles describing math concepts and principles.
Some Aspects of the Early History of Mathematics
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Origins of Mathematical Words
Origins of Mathematical Words supplies definitions for words such as conchoid (a shell-shaped curve derived from the Greek noun for "mussel") and zenith (Arabic for "way overhead"), as well as approximation (from the Latin proximus, meaning ...