[Image from the MacTutor Archive.]
The story of mathematics is the story of interesting people. What a shame it is that our children see only the dry remains of these people’s passion.
By learning math history, our students will see how men and women wrestled with concepts, made mistakes, and argued with each other. They gradually developed the knowledge we today take for granted.
In a previous article, I recommended books that you may find at your local library or be able to order through inter-library loan. Now, let me introduce you to the wealth of math history resources on the Internet.
UPDATE: This old post has been replaced by a permanent resource page. You can find all the math history links at Math History on the Internet.
Whew! This was a bigger task than I realized when I first suggested it. I added these links to my math resource page, too — and reorganized the old links for easier use — which increased the length of that page by 50%.
Thank you. Your resource page is quite useful.
Jonathan
Thanks for the encouragement, Jonathan! The resource pages are my all-time most-frequently-visited “post.” I have been collecting more links for it, but I haven’t found the time to sit down and enter them. Some day….
Thanks for the post
Thank you for your work… Very interesting for a foreigner too! ^_^