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Critics Corner

Reviews of books, websites, poster sets, movies, and other resources for learning and teaching the history of mathematics.

ABOUT Website on History of Mathematics
A section of a much larger website, dealing with some random topics in the history of mathematics.
A History of Mathematics Education
A reprint of the 32nd yearbook of the NCTM, dealing with developments in mathematics education in the U.S. and Canada. In particular, it gives a history of the various reform movements up to the publication date of 1980.
Yearning for the Impossible: The Surprising Truths of Mathematics
This book explores the history of mathematics from the perspective of the creative tension between common sense and the "impossible" as the author follows the discovery or invention of new concepts that have marked mathematical progress.

 
Great Feuds in Mathematics
A lively description of ten of the greatest feuds in mathematics.
How Mathematics Happened: The First 50,000 Years
A popular history of ancient mathematics, dealing with the mathematics of ancient Egypt and Babylonia.
The Story of Mathematics
A wonderful survey of the history of mathematics, emphasizing its relationship with the ambient culture.
Mathematics in India
A survey of over two thousand years of the history of mathematics on the Indian subcontinent.
Gauss: Titan of Science
Reprint of a classic biography of Gauss, with a new forward by Jeremy Gray.
Review of Agora
The movie Agora, about the mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 400 AD), is spectacular and intriguing but Hypatia should be portrayed as the hero she was.
To Infinity and Beyond
A cultural history of the infinite, from ancient to modern times, in which the author clarifies the conceptual underpinnings of this vast topic.

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