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Provisions

If 80 dollars worth of provisions will serve 20 men for 25 days, what number of men will the same amount of provisions serve for 10 days?

Who's That Mathematician? Images from the Paul R. Halmos Photograph Collection

We invite you to send us information about these photographs of 20th century mathematicians.

Fibonacci's Liber Abaci
A translation of one of the earliest European mathematical texts to use the Hindu-Arabic number system.
Isaac Barrow's Geometrical Lectures
This is the title page to the English version of Isaac Barrow's Geometrical Lectures, which were originally given in his position as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. These lectures contain one of the earliest statements and proofs of what is today known as the fundamental theorem of calculus.
The Nothing That Is

A history of the concept of zero from as far back as the Babylonian period, with philosophical excursions into the meaning of "nothing".

The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India and Islam

A new collection of original source materials in the mathematics of five civilizations.

Student Reports: A Rewarding Undertaking

Some ideas on using student reports when you teach a course in the history of mathematics

On the Run

A certain slave fled from Milan to Naples going 1/10 of the whole journey each day. At the beginning of the third day, his master sent a slave after him and this slave went 1/7 of the whole journey each day.

Who's That Mathematician? Images from the Paul R. Halmos Photograph Collection
Page 11: Dantzig to Dieudonne
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.

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