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Mathematical Treasure: Waymouth's 'Jewell of Artes'

Beautifully illustrated practical mathematics manuscript designed to impress King James I

Review of A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts

Our reviewer finds this collection of translations of Babylonian mathematical tablets to be both fascinating and accessible.

Mathematical Treasure: Cuthbert Tunstall's De arte supputandi

The first arithmetic book published in England was a 1522 Latin text by Cuthbert Tunstall.

Mathematical Treasure: Digges' Stratioticos

Leonard and Thomas Digges applied mathematics to the science of war, including, as illustrated here, for troop formation.

Mathematical Treasure: Copernicus' De Revolutionibus

Images from <em>De revolutionibus,</em> the book of Nicolaus Copernicus in which he presented his heliocentric theory, arguing that the planets, including the Earth, rotated about the Sun

Mathematical Treasure: Specula mathematica of Roger Bacon

Collection (from 1614) of Roger Bacon's 13th century writings on applications of mathematics

Completing the Square

Explain the geometric basis of "completing the square," the original method of solving quadratic equations, to your students.

Boethius's Arithmatic

The Arithmetic of Boethius (480-524) dates from the early sixth century. This page is from a mansucript (Plimpton MS 165) that dates from approximately 1294, written on vellum.

Great Ideas of Mathematics

A set of four posters dealing with the Pythagorean Theorem, infinity, prime numbers, and the history of pi.

Still More Numbers

Find two numbers, x and y, such that their sum is 10 and x/y + y/x = 25