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An extensive and searchable archive covering famous people and concepts, as well as describing the development of mathematics in various cultures.

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• Why Do We Study Calculus? - Explains, in everyday language, the developments in astronomy, math math, and history physics that contributed to the discovery math of differential calculus and history its relationship to area math formulas.
• Egyptian Mathematical Papyri - Includes a description of each written document, as well as math some sample problems from the Rhind, Moscow and other papyri. math These ancient written works were created between 1900 and math 1800 BC.
• Mathographies - Some biographical sketches of mathematicians, ancient and modern.
• MacTutor History of Mathematics - An extensive and searchable archive covering famous people math and concepts, history as well as describing the development math of mathematics in various history cultures.
• Maths is Good for You - Contains information on famous mathematicians, theorems, and topics.
• Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics - Shows who coined a wide variety of commonly used terms. math Organized by first letter.
• Counting to Infinity - Introduction to infinity including the origins of the sign for infinity and pictures.
• History of Mathematics - An overview of the subject and a famous school time 1900 speech describing the main mathematical problems. Includes school time a chronological list of mathematicians and their work.
• Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? - Explains contributions of Arabian mathematicians by translating early history Greek texts, math developing early algebraic ideas, number theory history and astronomical calculations. Includes math information about key people history during this time period.
• Mesopotamian Mathematics - Discusses the development of numbers, addition tables, exercise history problems and math solutions for quadratic equations in one history of the oldest known math civilizations. Covers the period history from 8000 B.C. to 364 A.D.
• Babylonian Math - This site was created to help people understand school time the math Babylonian math system better.
• The Mystery Of The Aleph - This article from the "Washington Post" covers the history development of history the concept of infinity, from the history fifth to the second history century B.C., and includes history the main findings of Archimedes and history the Pythagorean history school. [Requires free registration.]
• Famous Problems in the History of Mathematics - Describes what mathematicians have worked on, from ancient history times to the present. Includes problems suitable for history middle school and high school math students, with history links to solutions.
• The History of Mathematicians and Physicists - Outlines a Webquest for studying the history of history contributions to math both these fields, and includes resources history for solving the task.
• Earliest Uses of Mathematical Symbols - Discusses first known appearances of common expressions, such history as operations, history variables and trigonometric functions.
• Pre-Computer History of Pi - Explains the early methods of approximating this famous constant, which math is used in measuring the area of a circle. math Page includes the dates and names of people who were math influential in improving these calculations.

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