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Critics Corner

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

Review of The Math Book
In this fascinating and accessible book, the author devotes one lively, informative page of description and one striking, full-page illustration to each of 250 milestones in mathematics.
Negative Math
The story of the negative numbers
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.
Math for Mystics
A book connecting mathematics to mysticism, but not recommended.
Great Moments in Mathematics Before 1650
A collection of short lectures by Howard Eves giving details on 20 important happenings in the history of mathematics before 1650.
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.

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