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Critics Corner

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

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.
Unexpected Links between Egyptian and Babylonian Mathematics
This book demonstrates the relationship between the mathematics in some recently discovered Babylonian tablets and some standard problems from Egyptian mathematics.
Historic Women of Mathematics
Poster picturing five famous women, from Hypatia to Grace Hopper.
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.
Mathematical Works Printed in the Americas, 1554-1700
A bibliographical reference to mathematics books printed in the new world before 1700.
From Calculus to Computers
A collection of articles on using the history of mathematics of the past 200 years in the undergraduate classroom.
Review of De grands defis mathematiques d'Euclide a Condorcet
Nine examples of using history in the mathematics classroom -- for those who read French!

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