The University of St. Andrews, Scotland, presents hundreds of biographies of famous mathematicians, histories of math in various cultures, and interesting facts on the development of important math concepts. This is a huge reference....

Short selections from W. W. Rouse Ball's "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics," most of which are biographies that focus on the mathematician's work. The text can be read online or downloaded by individual chapters in MP3 or...

Find the information you need about math history, from Archimedes to Fermat. A great resource for studying the foundations of today's world of mathematics.

On this site, there are several math problems to explore and solve. Look through some solutions by famous mathematicians and expand your thinking about some interesting math concepts. Teachers of elementary grades may want to use this...

Travel through time and explore the greatest mathematicians and the biggest mathematical discoveries in history. Click on any name for brief biographical details.

Describes India's contribution to mathematics.

Why did the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik throw the fields of mathematics and science into tremendous demand in the United States? Find the many ways this revolutionary event impacted children from the 1950s to become the...

Everything you'd like to know about the coordinate plane can be found here! Who invented and named it, what vocabulary words have been associated with it, and what notations are connected with it. All this and more about the history of...

This ask Dr. Math question about the history of zero and place value. Includes a very in-depth answer explaining where zero came from and how it was originally used as a place holder.

The University of St. Andrews allows you to look through the history of matrices.

This page, which is provided for by the University of St. Andrews, traces the history of Set Theory as well as the concept of infinity and the infinite set.

Resources for learning about the history of mathematics in ancient Africa, specifically the diaspora. Looks at the prejudices that existed in past centuries towards African people, at mathematical discoveries and artifacts from Africa...

This mathematician contributed to many areas of mathematics, but most importantly he developed the formula to multiply exponents.

This mathematician is remembered for his work on regular polyhedra. You can find more about the works of Hypsicles and other mathematicians at this site.

Biographies of famous mathematicians, the history of math, math notation, and mathematical terminology are several of the topics explored by MathWorld. Each link takes the user to a site with extensive information, detailed sketches, and...

A biography of Cavalieri that includes information on his principle or "indivisibles." From a 1904 text by W. W. Rouse Ball.

Contains detailed historical information regarding the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra and the various proofs that were developed. Click on the links at the bottom of the page to access all the information.

The University of St. Andrews offers a brief history of the first math problem to be solved with computers.

Describes the history of Greek mathematics and the major figures and schools of mathematics.

This lesson focuses on the distribution of large prime numbers. It offers a calculator to check numbers for prime and a calculator that allows you to create prime numbers. It also provides the history of methods find the distribution of...

Surveys the history of mapmaking from prehistoric to current times with an illustrated chronology.

A comprehensive discussion of Greek number systems of the first millennium BC, including acrophonic and alphabetical. Includes examples demonstrating the lack of a truly unified system among the Greek islands.

Discusses what numbers are and how our understanding of them has evolved over thousands of years, from simple counting to negative numbers and irrational numbers, for example. Includes a set of practice questions where students identify...

His work in geometry and trigonometry gave definition to many common terms that we know today.