Great Idea Finder
The Great Idea Finder: Adding Machine
The Great Idea Finder profiles the adding machine, invented by nineteen-year old mathematician Blaise Pascal in the year 1642.
Tour Egypt
Tour Egypt: The Ancient Egyptian Number System
This Tour Egypt site presents an easy-to-read account of ancient Egypt mathematics. Content explores the history and development of mathematics, how it was used, what helpful documents we have found that give us insight into what the...
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Lazare Carnot
This page offers an excellent biography on Lazare Carnot, a French mathematician, engineer, military captain, and defense specialist (1753-1823.) Discusses his life and his contributions to these fields.
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Quotation by Apollonius
This site, which is provided for by the University of St. Andrews, contains a quote of Apollonius from the Preface to Book 1 of "Conics."
Other
Sieve of Eratosthenes
Named after the Greek Mathematician. This classic method of finding prime numbers is also great for teaching about factors and multiples. The visnos sieve allows for multi colored squares this allows identification of any numbers prime...
NASA
Nasa: Astronomy Picture of the Day: Hypatia
Learn more about Hypatia when you check out this resource. This site features a picture and a brief synopsis of this famous scientist.
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Portrait of Mary Somerville
Three portraits of Mary Somerville (1780-1872 CE) are presented on this page. A great way to enhance a report on the famous mathematician.
Other
Mathpages.com: History of Mathematics
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.
Ministry of Education and Employment of Spain
Red Escolar: El Crucigrama De Hipatia
In Spanish. Hypatia of Alejandria was a great mathematician that from an early age taught and investigated almost all branches of mathematics. To remember her solve the crossword puzzle involving problems of arithmetic, geometry and...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Galileo Galilei
(1564-1642) Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who was one of the great creators of experimental science.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Euclid
Euclid, a great mathematician, wrote the first systematic textbook on geometry.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ptolemy
He was a mathematician, geographer, astronomer, and astrologer. "The name of a line Graeco-Egyptain kings, who succeeded on the division of the empire of Alexander the Great, to the portion of his dominions of which Egypt was the head."...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Approximate Solutions: Differential Equations
The base of the natural logarithm function, is called Euler's number, in honor of Leonhard Euler, a great Swiss mathematician. (Continued. See "before the activity.")