Resources on History of Mathematics

This is a resource page for high school students and high school teachers on History of Mathematics.

History of Mathematics  for Students

Authority:  Howard Eves, Lee Woo-young, Keith Devlin, and Shin Hang-gyun translation

Affiliation:  Authors of An Introduction to the History of Mathematics and The Science of Patterns, Scientific American Library 

Content:  This website has a lot of information that would be good for high school students to learn about the history of mathematics. 

Accuracy:  The information for this website is very accurate and very detailed.

 Audience:  This website is very appropriate for high school students and also could be used by middle school students.

 Currency:  This website does not have a particular date for the last time that it has been updated.  The books that the web site is based on were written in 1994.  This website would be good to research the older history of mathematics.

 Design:  I love the design of the website.  I think that the authors have done a wonderful job.

Earliest Uses of Various Mathematical Symbols

Authority and Affiliation:  Florian Cajori – author of  A History of Mathematical Notations and Jeff Miller - a mathematics teacher at Gulf High School in New Port Richey. Florida. 

Content:  This web site shows when we started to use different mathematical symbols that we use in our society today.

Accuracy:  This website is very accurate according to other information that I have seen.

 Audience:  This is a great tool for high school students to find out how and where certain math symbols came from. 

Currency:  The site does not show the last time that this page was updated.

 Design:  This page does not have a wonderful design but it has the information organized in a nice manner.

Authority and Affiliation:  John J O’Connor and Edmund F. Robertson – professors at School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St. Andrews 

Content:  This site contains a lot of content on various topics of mathematics. 

Accuracy:  The information on this site is very accurate. 

Audience:  This site is appropriate for high school students and teachers.

 Currency:  This website was last updated in January 2004. 

Design:  This website does not have an elaborate design.

Authority and Affiliation:  This website is a research and education enterprise of Drexel University. 

Content:  This site contains some of the most famous problems in mathematical history.

 Accuracy:  This site is accurate because it shows the famous problems.

 Audience:  This site is very easy to navigate and can be used by middle and high school students.

 Currency:  This website was last updated in 2004.

 Design:  This site has a nice picture but does not have much more.

Allmath.com

Authority and Affiliation:  This site is a service mark of Arbor Media, Inc.

Content:  This site contains lots of biographies and also has a lot of helpful math tools. 

Accuracy:  The site is very accurate in accordance to other sites that I have visited. 

Audience:  This site is appropriate for middle and high school students.

 Currency:  The site was last updated in 2000.

 Design:  The site has nice color scheme.

Authority and Affiliation:  Mitchell C. Brown – professor of mathematics at Princeton University.

 Content and Accuracy:  This site has detailed accurate information on different mathematicians of color.

 Audience:  This site is appropriate for teachers.

 Currency and Design:  The site was last updated on December 30, 2002.  The site does not have a great design but is organized wonderfully.

Authority and Affiliation:  Scott Williams – professor of mathematics at University of Buffalo

 Content and Accuracy:  The site has a lot of accurate information on African American mathematicians.

 Audience:  This site is appropriate for teachers.

 Currency and Design:  This site was last revised on April 2002. This site has a great deal of photos.

Authority and Affiliation: Ohio State University 

Content and Accuracy:  This site is very accurate with a lot of information on the History of Mathematics. 

Audience:  This site is perfect for teachers.

 Currency and Design:  This site has a wonderful design and was last updated on March 28, 2003.

Authority and Affiliation:  Simon Fraser University

 Content and Accuracy:  This site contains accurate information of the history of mathematics in the form of a timeline. 

Audience:  This site is appropriate for teachers.

 Currency and Design:  This site has a wonderful design

Teaching A Course in The History of Mathematics

 Authority and Affiliation:  V. Frederick Rickey – USMA

 Content and Accuracy:  This site contains accurate information on how and what to teach from the history of mathematics. 

Audience:  The site is very appropriate for teachers. 

Currency and Design: This site was last revised on January 6, 2003 and has a nice design.