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What will the diameter of a sphere be, when its volume and surface area are expressed by the same number?

The Great Calculation According to the Indians, of Maximus Planudes

A translation of part of a thirteenth century work by the Byzantine monk Maximus Planudes on the Hindu-Arabic numerals and the algorithms for calculation.

Weight of a Ball

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.