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If a ball 6 inches in diameter weighs 32 lbs, what will be the weight of a ball 3 inches in diameter?

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.

The Rule of False Position and Geometric Problems

This article contains examples of the use of the rule of false position in the solution of geometric problems as found in the work of Simon Stevin. We discuss the benefits for future teachers and their students.

Servois' 1813 Perpetual Calendar, with an English Translation

An image of the calendar, together with instructions for its use