In Spanish. Offers brief mathematical histories beginning with Egypt and Babylon up through the 19th century.

In this math resource from the Real Sociedad Matematica Espanola, you can read the biographies of famous Spanish mathematicians.

A historical overview of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra. Links to historic mathematicians and the development of this theorem.

How do you compare to these results from Olympic Games in the past if you try similar running and jumping activities? This activity uses the history of the Olympic Games to introduce ideas about measuring time and distances in standard...

This site, which is provided for by the University of St. Andrews, gives a brief biography of Nicolaus Bernoulli.

This page of brief biographies taken from "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics," includes a paragraph on the life and work of Gabriel Cramer of "Cramer's Rule," fame.

This site explains the mathematical system of the Mayans. It gives the represenation they used for numbers and how they did addition and subtraction.

Read the biographies of dozens of women mathematicians who were important in the 1700's, 1800's, and 1900's.

Many people have used a multiplication table, but most are oblivious that Nicomachus made the first multiplication table in Greek text.

Very cool site. Allows you to zoom in/out and add evolutes, involutes, etc.

The progression of algebra history is covered in areas including Egyptian algebra, Babylonian algebra, Arabic algebra, to name a few.

This site from the University of St. Andrews provides a biography of mathematician Nicholas Chuquet, who was the first to use negative numbers as exponents and coefficients.

This site from the University of Saint Andrews shows the involute of a circle graphically and gives brief history. Cartesian equation is given.

This site, which is provided for by the University of St. Andrews, allows you to zoom in/out and add evolutes, involutes, etc.

This site from the University of St. Andrews allows you to zoom in/out and add evolutes, involutes, etc.

This site, which is provided for by the University of St. Andrews, allows you to zoom in/out and add evolutes, involutes, etc.

This University of St. Andrews presents this list of female mathematicians with a description of their contributions to the field.

This Clark University site gives a brief historical perspective into how trigonometry is used in astronomy, geography, engineering, physics, and mathematics.

A look at the life of Democritus of Abdera. He helped to develop a theory of atomism, explained in detail here. Other significant ideas he had included his theory of perception, a theory of the soul and its relationship to living things,...

The Center for Mathematics and Science Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides an interesting and easy-to-use dictionary of the history and meaning of many measurement terms. Metric, International, and...

Events of Rene Descartes' life 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).

A counterpart problem in measurement would be to find the length of the diagonal of a square whose side is one unit long; there is no subdivision of the unit length that will divide evenly into the length of the diagonal. It thus became...

The first American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, Winifred Merrill made many contributions to the world of mathematics. Her life and accomplishments are documented in this short biography.

Presents many interesting pieces of information from the history of pi.