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

Gives a brief history and lists the parametric cartesian equations.

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

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 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, 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 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.

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

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.

Like many heroes of Greek myths, the philosopher Hippasus was rumored to have been mortally punished by the gods. But what was his crime? Did he murder guests or disrupt a sacred ritual? No, Hippasus's transgression was mathematically...

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

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

In addition to providing a task that relates to other disciplines (history, civics, current events, etc.), this task is intended to demonstrate that a graph can summarize a distribution as well as provide useful information about...

This activity suggests a number of investigative projects, focusing on athletics and swimming, exploring some of the trends between performances in different sports at the same time in history and in the rate of improvement of records...

Students research the history behind number systems and create their own systems in the role of a mathematics expert sent to help an imaginary society. A fun way to learn the importance of number systems.

The goal of this activity is for students to use manipulatives to add integers, creating concepts rather than memorizing rules. This activity will be related to the 300 Spartans who battled the invading Persians at the Battle of...

This resource explains determinants as related to mathematics and the history of determinants.

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

This site provides an in-depth discussion on what pi is. It gives a brief history revealing what the Egyptians and Babylonians estimated pi at.

Contains a biography and information on Leonhard Euler's background and contributions to the field of mathematics.