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Who's That Mathematician? Images from the Paul R. Halmos Photograph Collection
Paul Halmos Photograph Collection, page 3: M. Auslander, R. Baer, Banchoff, C. N. Moore, I. A. Barnett, P. Erdos, and Lida Barrett
The Calculus Gallery

A gallery of episodes from the history of calculus.

Simon Jacob's Rechenbuch
This is the title page of the 1599 edition of the Rechenbuch of Simon Jacob (d. 1564), a Rechenmeister of the sixteenth century. This was a commercial arithmetic text, in which the basic laws of arithmetic were applied to many practical problems.
Area Approximation

Fibonacci gave a practical rule for approximating the area of an equilateral triangle.

How Mathematics Happened: The First 50,000 Years

A popular history of ancient mathematics, dealing with the mathematics of ancient Egypt and Babylonia.

Statisticians of the Centuries

Thumbnail sketches of statisticians throughout history.

MAA PREP Workshops

Two MAA PREP Workshops in the History of Mathematics will be offered in June at the MAA Headquarters in Washington, DC.

Euler Tercentenary Year
2007 marks the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Leonhard Euler, the most prolific mathematician of all time. There are numerous events throughout the world celebrating this anniversary, many of which are listed here.
Approximate Construction of Regular Polygons: Two Renaissance Artists

Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Durer both offered approximate constructions of regular pentagons for the use of artists. This article explains these constructions.

HOM SIGMAA 2012 Student Paper Contest Winners

Download the two winning essays to learn about using indivisibles to find the area under a cycloid arch in the 17th century and about the Radon transform and its use in x-ray tomography in the 20th century.

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