This lesson plan is aimed at 7th and 8th grade students and involves researching famous mathematicians and the import of their contributions.

The University of St. Andrews allows you to link to many famous mathematicians and mathematical events from Babylonian mathematics in 2000 B.C. to mathematical discoveries in the 20th Century.

This site from the University of Saint Andrews provides an historical look at the origins of trig functions. This site ties together mathematics and history from Hipparchus to Ptolemy to Lambert.

Read accounts of the lives and works of seventeenth and eighteenth century mathematicians, including Sir Isaac Newton and Rene Descartes.

Provides a listing of books that are useful in research on this topic.

This page provides an excellent biography of John Wallis, an English clergyman, mathematician, and philosopher. Discusses his childhood, education, travel, studies, and his contributions to the fields of philosophy, language, and...

This site, which is provided for by the University of St. Andrews, gives biographical information on mathematician Pierre de Fermat.

Biography of mathematician Leohnard Euler, who introduced the concept of beta and gamma functions.

Biographical information on Thomas Bayes, mathematician who worked on the theory of probability.

This site from the University of St. Andrews provides biographical information about mathematician Christoff Rudolff, author of the first book about algebra in German.

Bombelli's contributions to mathematics were mainly in algebra. He was the first to figure the multiplication of negative integers.

From the Greek Period to the 20th Century, the University of St. Andrews provide a time line of famous mathematicians. Time periods are separated into individual time lines.

Gives a brief history and lists the parametric cartesian equations.

This site, which is provided for by the University of St. Andrews, gives a biography of mathematician George Dantzig, the man that introduced the concept of linear programming.

Use this tool from the University of St. Andrews to find famous mathematicians alive on given dates. Just enter the year you are interested in, and you will receive a list of mathematicians and related information about the mathematician...

This page from the University of St. Andrews offers an excellent biography on Isaac Barrow, an English mathematician and humanist(1630-1677.) Discusses his life and his contributions to these fields.

This site, which is provided for by the University of St. Andrews, gives a brief biography of Christopher Clavius with references for additional study.

This site from the University of St. Andrews has information on any mathematician you can think of and who may be found through a chronological index approach or alphabetically.

The lesson examines the origins of mathematics. Strings of symbols, the mathematicians of Ancient Greece, Arabian scholars, and the Renaissance are discussed.

Biographies of Blacks in mathematics from the 1700s to the present time.

The events of the life of Pierre de Fermat are presented in a timeline form. The biographical information is taken from "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics" by W. W. Rouse Ball (4th Edition, 1908).

The events of the life of Pierre Laplace are presented in a timeline form. The biographical information is taken from "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics" by W. W. Rouse Ball (4th Edition, 1908).

John David Walters shares the origins of mathematical symbols and illuminates why they're still so important in the field today.

This personal site explains how variables began and who were the first to use them.