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Critics Corner

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

Numbers at Work: A Cultural Perspective
Essays on how number has been critical to the work of scientists through the ages.
Cogwheels of the Mind: The Story of Venn Diagrams
An introduction to the work of Venn as well as the work of the author in extending some of Venn's results.
The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth
A comprehensive history of trigonometry from ancient times to the Renaissance.
History of Mathematical Symbolism and Terminology
Website containing much information on mathematical symbolism and terminology, as well as portraits of mathematicians from postage stamps.
Review of The Babylonian Theorem
The author constructs a possible mathematical path from the ancient Babylonians to Pythagoras, Euclid, and the ancient Greeks.
The Archimedes Website
This website devoted to miscellanea about Archimedes contains much interesting material about his life and times.
Thinking About Mathematics
An excellent book surveying the history of the philosophy of mathematics from the time of Plato to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Math through the Ages
Where does pi come from? Why should we be interested in negative numbers, or square roots of negative numbers? How did people ever figure out the quadratic formula? A truly wonderful reference for teachers at all levels.
Measuring America
The beginnings of land measurement in the early United States and how this affected American democracy.
Benjamin Banneker
Poster of Banneker, with a brief description of his life and work.

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