The History of Mathematics Research Group studies the origins and development of mathematical ideas and methods from the beginnings of recorded history—in all societies and cultures. Research in this ...

IT is only during the last fifty or sixty years that the history of mathematics has been systematically studied. In that time, however, the field has been gradually covered by an increasing number ...

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THE two volumes of this history (the first of which was noticed in NATURE of November 15, 1924) deal with the subject from two different aspects. The first volume, described as a “General Survey ...

Pythagorean mathematics, duplication, trisection, and quadrature, Euclid's elements and Greek mathematics after Euclid, Hindu and Arabian mathematics, European mathematics from 500 to 1600, origins of ...

Gandon, Sébastien 2023. Sheldon Smith on Newton’s Derivative: Retrospective Assignation, Externalism and the History of Mathematics. Topoi, Vol. 42, Issue. 1, p. 333. The controversial matters ...

This course is available with permission to General Course students. This course surveys the development of mathematics from the beginning of history with an emphasis on its relation with the ...

A leading academic has highlighted China’s rich mathematical history, including a startling fact about a well-known theorem.

NEW ORLEANS — A high school math contest has turned into a history-making event thanks to a pair of young girls. These two ...

A Ghanaian woman has made history by becoming the first female to obtain a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Ghana. Her achievement has inspired many.