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Algebraic Formalism within the Works of Servois and Its Influence on the Development of Linear Operator Theory
How Servois' failed attempt to construct a foundation for the calculus nonetheless helped shape modern mathematics
Everything and More

A survey of concepts of infinite sets over the centuries.

Jacob Bernoulli's Ars Conjectandi
Title page of Jacob Bernoulli's Ars Conjectandi (The Art of Conjecturing), published posthumously in 1713 by his nephew Nicolaus I Bernoulli. The Ars Conjectandi is famous for Bernoulli's statement of a general rule for summing integral powers as well as for the first statement and proof of the Law of Large Numbers.
The Saga of Mathematics

A brief history of mathematics aimed at college students with little technical knowledge of mathematics.

Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Moments

A collection of short biographical sketches of people involved in the development of calculus, as well as brief descriptions of important events in that development.

Sherlock Holmes in Babylon

A collection of articles in the history of mathematics that appeared in journals of the Mathematical Association of America over the past 90 years.

How Tartaglia Solved the Cubic Equation
Tartaglia's method for solving cubics, which he eventually explained to Cardano.
8th Grade Education in 1895

What it took to get an 8th grade education in 1895

Who's That Mathematician? Images from the Paul R. Halmos Photograph Collection
Page 12: Dilworth to Doob
The Greate Invention of Algebra

Jacqueline Stedall has uncovered the numerous algebraic ideas of Thomas Harriot from the early 17th century and has organized them into a readable treatise.

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