Critics Corner

Reviews of books, websites, poster sets, movies, and other resources for learning and teaching the history of mathematics.

Essays on how number has been critical to the work of scientists through the ages.

An introduction to the work of Venn as well as the work of the author in extending some of Venn's results.

A comprehensive history of trigonometry from ancient times to the Renaissance.

Website containing much information on mathematical symbolism and terminology, as well as portraits of mathematicians from postage stamps.

The author constructs a possible mathematical path from the ancient Babylonians to Pythagoras, Euclid, and the ancient Greeks.

This website devoted to miscellanea about Archimedes contains much interesting material about his life and times.

Boyer's classic text, as revised by Uta Merzbach, is still worth having.

These posters illustrate aspects of the history of mathematics in countries from Babylonia to Ireland.

The beginnings of land measurement in the early United States and how this affected American democracy.

Poster of Banneker, with a brief description of his life and work.

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