Site includes biographies of mathematicians, articles on a variety of mathematical history topics; hosted by the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews Scotland

History Topics Index The links below will take you to individual articles or to index pages for articles on these topics. Mathematics in various cultures Ancient Babylonian mathematics Ancient Egyptian mathematics Ancient Greek mathematics Indian mathematics Arabic mathematics Mayan mathematics American mathematics Mathematics in Scotland Mathematical topics Overview of the history of ...

Every culture on earth has developed some mathematics. In some cases, this mathematics has spread from one culture to another. Now there is one predominant international mathematics, and this mathematics has quite a history. It has roots in ancient Egypt and Babylonia, then grew rapidly in ancient Greece. Mathematics written in ancient Greek was translated into Arabic. About the same time some ...

Every culture on earth has developed some mathematics. In some cases, this mathematics has spread from one culture to another. Now there is one predominant international mathematics, and this mathematics has quite a history. It has roots in ancient Egypt and Babylonia, then grew rapidly in ancient Greece. Mathematics written in ancient Greek was translated into Arabic. About the same time some ...

The History of Mathematics David R. Wilkins Trinity College, Dublin Major Collections at this Website: George Berkeley (1685-1753) and The Analyst Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, from A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by W. W. Rouse Ball Other Material: George Boole ...

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The British Society for the History of Mathematics HOME | About BSHM | BSHM Council | Join BSHM | Meetings | Abstracts | Education | Newsletter | Gazetteer | Archive | Resources | Other Meetings | Search The British Society for the History of Mathematics The aims of the British Society for the History of Mathematics are to promote research into the history of mathematics and its use at all ...

Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics LEFT TO RIGHT: James Joseph Sylvester, who introduced the words matrix, discriminant, invariant, totient, and Jacobian; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who introduced the words variable, constant, function, abscissa, parameter, coordinate and perhaps derivative; Rene Descartes, who introduced the terms real number and imaginary number; Sir ...

History of mathematics presented through famous problems, with some exercises and their solutions. Done in conjunction with the Math Forum, the home of Ask Dr. Math.

Babylonian and Egyptian mathematics We now have a more extensive coverage of Babylonian and Egyptian mathematics. Click on one of the links below Babylonian mathematics index Egyptian mathematics index JOC/EFR January 2001 The URL of this page is: School_of_Mathematics_and_Statistics University_of_St_Andrews, _Scotland http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.

This Web site is maintained by Paul Vincent Spade at Indiana University. It is intended for anyone interested in mediaeval logic and philosophy broadly construed.

The Mathematical Problems of David Hilbert About Hilbert's address and his 23 mathematical problems Hilbert's address of 1900 to the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris is perhaps the most influential speech ever given to mathematicians, given by a mathematician, or given about mathematics. In it, Hilbert outlined 23 major mathematical problems to be studied in the coming century.

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TEACHING WITH ORIGINAL HISTORICAL SOURCES IN MATHEMATICS REINHARD LAUBENBACHER Department of Mathematics Virginia Polytechnic and State University Blacksburg, VA 24061-0123 USA 540-231-7506; 540-231-2606 (FAX) reinhard@math.vt.edu DAVID PENGELLEY Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, 3MB New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA 505-646-3901; 505-646-1064 (FAX) davidp@nmsu.edu Bienvenidos!

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Homepage of the Institute for History and Foundations of Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Contains info about our staff, our research program and links to other useful sites.

This is the editor's homepage of the journal Historia Mathematica. Brief Introduction Historia Mathematica, founded in 1974 by Kenneth O. May, is the official journal of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics. It appears quarterly in February, May, August, and November and publishes: research articles in all areas of the history of mathematics; book reviews; abstracts of ...

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z The Traditional Square of Opposition This entry traces the historical development of the Square of Opposition, a collection of logical relationships traditionally embodied in a square diagram. This body of doctrine provided a foundation for work in logic for ...

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z Medieval Theories of Analogy Medieval theories of analogy were a response to problems in three areas: logic, theology, and metaphysics. Logicians were concerned with the use of words having more than one sense, whether completely different, or related in some ...

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z Medieval Theories of Modality There are four modal paradigms in ancient philosophy: the statistical or temporal frequency interpretation of modality, the model of possibility as a potency, the model of antecedent necessities and possibilities with respect to a ...

Jacques Maritain Center : Readings Scholasticism by Joseph Rickaby New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1908. Preface IT used to be assumed that Philosophy lay in a trance for more than a thousand years, from St. Augustine to Francis Bacon. Now it is coming to be admitted that the labours of the Schoolmen within that period do count for something in the history of human thought. This Primer is an ...

F A Q Philosophy Pages Dictionary Study Guide Logic Tutoring Traffic History Timeline Philosophers Locke Aristotle: Logical Methods Aristotle Life and Works . . Logic . . Demonstration . . Four Causes . . Metaphysics . . Universals . . Knowledge . . Virtue . . Volition . . Friendship . . Politics . . Poetics Bibliography Internet Sources The greatest and most influential of Plato's students was ...

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The Summulae of John Buridan by Gyula Klima John Buridan and his Summulae John Buridan (1295/1305 1358/61) was undoubtedly one of the most influential philosophers of the late Middle Ages. Nevertheless, as is usual with medieval authors, we do not know much about his life. His date and place of birth are uncertain. He was born somewhere in the diocese of Arras in Picardy , sometime around 1300.

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The goal of the course is to show why calculus has served as the principal quantitative language of science for more than three hundred years.

The purpose of this site is to provide a virtual environment for scholarly discussion of the History of Mathematics.

Mechanical Aids to Computation and the Development of Algorithms 3. Mechanical Calculators prior to the 19th Century 3.1. Introduction It was observed, at the conclusion of the last chapter, that the general adoption of a notational formalism sophisticated enough in which to express some complex calculations, coincided with a greatly increased requirement for techniques and tools that could ...

Mechanical Aids to Computation and the Development of Algorithms 2. Early History 2.1. Introduction Although the computer and its widespread application in our society, are phenomena that have become predominant in only the last 30 years, many of the concepts underlying these developments have their origins in concerns dating back to the earliest cultures. Computers manipulate data (Latin, ...

Ancient Philosophy Aristotle's Reform of Paideia Evelyn M. Barker University of Maryland ABSTRACT: Ancient Greek education featured the pedagogical exercise of dialectic, in which a student defended a thesis against rigorous questioning by an instructor. Aristophanes Clouds, as well as Plato and Aristotle, criticize the practice for promoting intellectual skepticism, moral cynicism, and an ...

The Revival of Scholastic Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century Chapter II: Scholastic Logic Whereas all other sciences needed long periods of time to acquire the definite, systematic form they now possess, nay, in many cases, to find their right path, logic has hit at once its legitimate procedure, and has been able to reach without delay its complete development. If it has not advanced a single ...

THE HISTORY OF THE EUROPEAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY : 1990-98 by David A R Wallace Glasgow, Scotland, U.K. October, 1999 (Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights reserved to David A R Wallace). Introduction This brief history of the European Mathematical Society covers a period of slightly more than eight years, from the founding of the Society in 1990 to the end of 1998. The history was ...