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Critics Corner

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

Pythagoras' Revenge
A novel about Pythagoras and his followers
Architecture and Mathematics in Ancient Egypt
A study of the nature of architecture in ancient Egypt and its relationship to Egyptian mathematics.
Review of The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra
An excellent and careful study of matrix methods for solving systems of linear equations in first century China.
The Square Root of 2
A wonderful book about the square root of 2, beginning with the search for the side of a square double a given square.
God Created the Integers: Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History
Original source material from seventeen mathematicians, with commentary by Stephen Hawking.
Agnesi to Zeno
Short biographies of mathematicians with mathematical activities.
The Poincare Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe
The history of the Poincare conjecture up to its recent proof by Grigori Perelman.
Colorful Characters of Mathematics
Whimsical posters of fifteen mathematicians with brief biographies.
A History of Abstract Algebra
A history of the various algebraic structures that came together to give us "abstract algebra" by early in the twentieth century.
A History of Mathematics: Brief Version
A brief version of the author's well-known history of mathematics text.

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