Critics Corner

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

This textbook seamlessly combines the history of non-Euclidean geometry with the mathematical ideas.

This website contains a complete version of Euclid's Elements, with all the proofs.

Review of Bertram's text on the history of Greek science.

An overly ambitious textbook on the history of mathematics.

A five-volume set of biographies of mathematicians from ancient times to the twentieth century, aimed at secondary students.

A small selection of Euler's works, explained by a master expositor.

A collection of short pieces detailing how Euler solved a particular mathematics problem.

A collection of sixteen posters of contributors to calculus, with brief biographical sketches.

A biography stressing Agnesi's deep commitment to help those in need.

A translation of one of the earliest European mathematical texts to use the Hindu-Arabic number system.

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