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Primary Historical Sources in the Classroom: Discrete Mathematics and Computer Science

A collection of modules for teaching and learning by 'reading the masters'

Mathematical Treasure: Waymouth's 'Jewell of Artes'

Beautifully illustrated practical mathematics manuscript designed to impress King James I

Review of A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts

Our reviewer finds this collection of translations of Babylonian mathematical tablets to be both fascinating and accessible.

Mathematical Treasure: Cuthbert Tunstall's De arte supputandi

The first arithmetic book published in England was a 1522 Latin text by Cuthbert Tunstall.

Mathematical Treasure: Digges' Stratioticos

Leonard and Thomas Digges applied mathematics to the science of war, including, as illustrated here, for troop formation.

Mathematical Treasure: Copernicus' De Revolutionibus

Images from <em>De revolutionibus,</em> the book of Nicolaus Copernicus in which he presented his heliocentric theory, arguing that the planets, including the Earth, rotated about the Sun

Mathematical Treasure: Specula mathematica of Roger Bacon

Collection (from 1614) of Roger Bacon's 13th century writings on applications of mathematics

Thomas Simpson and Maxima and Minima

Simpson's methods for finding maxima and minima are explored by using examples from his "Doctrine and Application of Fluxions." Many of his techniques could be used in today's classroom.

Galileo's Geometrical Compass

This is the title page of the 1640 printing of Galileo's Operation of the Geometrical and Military Compass, originally published privately in 1606. Galileo had invented a version of this geometrical compass a few years earlier and evidently gave copies of this manual to those who bought the compass. The compass had many uses, from performing square root calculations to determining ranges of cannons to solving surveying problems.

Geometry Civilized: History, Culture, & Technique

This a wonderfully written tour of aspects of classical geometry-- a must read for all geometry teachers.